Quick Tip: Eject your CD on an Apple Mac

September 23, 2006 in CD, Leopard, OS X 10.5, OS X Server, PowerBook, PowerPC, Tiger, apple, eMac, iBook, iMac, keyboard, mac, mac mini, macintosh, mouse, openfirmware, operating system, os, os x, software, tip, windows | 2 comments

If you don’t have an Apple Macintosh keyboard, you miss out on the “eject button”. This is a shame really. The easiest way to eject the CD is to drag it to the recycle bin, or if you have a Windows mouse as well you can right-click and select eject. Should you have a Macintosh mouse, option-click and select eject. If all else fails, reboot the computer and hold down the left mouse button (or only mouse button), and the CD will eject for you. If this STILL doesn’t work, you can go into OpenFirmware and tell the Apple computer to eject using the command:

0 > eject cd

Hope that helps!

  1. Jason Clark’s avatar

    Jason Clark on January 9, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    Thanks! The eject-during-boot tip is exactly what I was looking for.

  2. James Deakin’s avatar

    James Deakin on March 1, 2007 at 3:09 am

    There is one onter way. Select the CD on the desktop and press apple + e. The disk will be ejected. Hope that’s useful.