SD card in the cd slot

I think i pushed my SD card back farther because i put a CD in it i cant feel the SD card, well i dont know what it feels like, i really need this out. i can fit my cd in all the way it pulls it in than it pushes it out please help me !!!!!

Don't keep putting the cd in there .... it doesn't help get it out .... turn the mac gently on it's side the use the L shaped paper clip ... it will definitely work the same thing happened with me ... I kept sticking the cd in thinking it would somehow push the sd card out but it doesn't! hope this helps!

Can't believe it.

After having just put up with this for weeks, and having tried everything from cardboard with double-sided tape to credit cards and rulers, an L-shaped piece of cardboard did the trick in about 30 seconds.

Just folded over a card I received in the mail, cut it into an L shape, manoeuvred it to catch the card (this was the tricky part) and gently, but firmly, pulled it out.

So happy now :-D

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Used a piece of Tim Holtz cardboard as it is soft and it worked perfectly!

I just did the same thing and I got it out with a hat pin.
I had my friend hold the computer so the the CD slot was facing the ground and I was below it, I bent the hat pin (you could do the same with a thin flexible piece of wire) into a long 'L' shape and fished in to pull the thing out, I found and removed it fairly easily. You would just need to work out where abouts it is and hook the shorter part of the 'L' around the top and pull down. 🙂

OMG thank you so much it really helped you guys saved my life

what i used was a needle hook 🙂

msbeezy wrote:

If you can see it a trick I've used to recover items is a pencil with a piece of scotch tape stuck to the eraser end using the raw tape end to attempt to get the item to stick to the tape..(this worked to retreive a credit card from between car dash and windsheild)

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I think you will find that a pencil is significantly wider than a CD/DVD slot.

Aaaaagh! I just did it too!! Stupid mistake! Thank goodness for this community cuz the paper clip thing worked like a charm! Whew!

The cardboard cut in an l-shape worked!!! Saved me dragging my imac to the mall! Will be taping over the CD slot since we use the SD slot much more often. This is the second time it's happened at my house, but first time it wasn't pushed in all the way. Thank you! There is also a video that I found showing the same thing, but the folded cardboard seemed to catch the card best.

Perfect solution. The L-shaped paperclip. Yes.. the card slot does need to be on the other side.

Having done the same thing 😊 ... hopefully for the first and very last time ... and following the comments here, I used a large paper clip, one that is about 2" long in its natural state ... unfolded it into an L. Inserted, as someone noted, about half-way up the slot so as to not push the SD card further in, then lowered it so the bottom of the L was behind the SD card on the inside. Pull out slowly, horizontally, and the SD card came right out ...

Thanks for everyone's previous advice 🙂

welllll my sd card went missing, then my cds were hard to insert into the cd drive, then it took in cd and ejected it out... hmmmmmmm found this post and tried tipping macbook pro on its side while on its side i got a bi of long folded card and started poking aroung and swiping it in there till it hit something then i just kept swiping at it till low and behold a missing sd card fell out!!! Bloody Kids ay!!!!!! lol saved me a heap of cash and time not having to go to the repair shop!!!! try it it works its amazing lol

hi try a long as bit of card folded over about 5inches long and when folded in half it measures about a inch in width then tip on side and start swiping it in there till u hit siomething, which is probebly the card. keep going with the swiping till it falls out!!!

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Thank you very much!

Thank you all! I too never reply to posts, but this one save me and is awesome!!

Thanks again for the wonderful information!!!