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Help... ejecting CD with Windows keyboard
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Just bought a MacPro and have a complicated KVM setup and am using a Windows keyboard on my switcher. There is no CD in the superdrive, but I'd like to put one in to install some software...!
Many thanks in advance for anyone who can tell me how to eject an empty drive using a Windows keyboard...
thanks - danbrew
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Can't you just right click and eject? NM, I read wrong! I thought you had a mini.
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Last edited by Jean-Loup; Feb 19, 2007 at 10:38 AM.
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I assume you are using a windows keyboard on OSX, correct?
If that's the case, then you can press and hold F12 and the drive will eject, I believe.
Worse case scenario use the Eject button on the lower right hand corner in iTunes. Problem solved.
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Yes, exactly, a Windows keyboard with OS X. F12 didn't work, but the iTunes is a great suggestion. I'll try that later when I'm sitting in front of that machine.
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Use the Eject menu extra. I forget where it's located on the hard drive, thought I think there's an option in a system preference somewhere to turn it on.
Edit: it's in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject.menu
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Originally Posted by Apfhex
Use the Eject menu extra. I forget where it's located on the hard drive, thought I think there's an option in a system preference somewhere to turn it on.
Edit: it's in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject.menu
Wow! Nice little option
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Or you can open up terminal and do this
1. Type the command drutil list into the Terminal and press return . This will provide a list of all currently connected removable devices.
2. Use the command drutil tray eject 1
In the above command, the number "1" should be replaced with whatever drive number you obtained in the first step.
There is a AppleScript for this here
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man, you guys are smart. thanks.
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Incidentally, the $13 Chinese generic keyboard I just got for my mini has an eject key that works in OS X.
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You can also add an eject button to the Finder window toolbar but this will only function to eject media that is already present.
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Originally Posted by Jean-Loup
Wow! Nice little option
Holy crap your sig is huge.
Originally Posted by demonhood
Signatures
Our current signature rules give you two options:
1. an image (200x50px max, 10KB max, non-animated) and up to one line of text, OR
2. no image, and up to four lines of text.
In either case, blank lines do count, and lines must be of reasonable length so they don't wrap on most screens (think 900px browser window width). Text should not be larger than the default size (no use of the SIZE tag).
I got called out on my old sig and redid it a few months back...you might want to condense yours a little.
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Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
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You can always use ControllerMate to remap the keyboard keys any way you want.
I took a rather cheap Dell keyboard with media keys (half of which don't even work in OSX) and I configured it to be even more capable than under windows.
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Originally Posted by Apfhex
Use the Eject menu extra. I forget where it's located on the hard drive, thought I think there's an option in a system preference somewhere to turn it on.
Edit: it's in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject.menu
Hah! that is so cool! any more of these little extras...?
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I guess the most obvious would be... drag it to the trash/eject?
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Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh
I guess the most obvious would be... drag it to the trash/eject?
Not if there isn't a disc in there to begin with....
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Terminal cmd "drutil tray eject" rocks.
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