SD card in the cd slot

This also happened to me. Let me add my name to the list 😊

Thank you for the help.This really did the trick.My SD card just popped out.No harm done to my CD ROM.Thank you!

Cut a piece of mat board into an L shape. It is the perfect thickness and slides the SD card right out with one gentle swipe.

Saved me a 400km round trip twice plus $140 1 hour quote. Fantastic. Folded buisness card work perfectly. Just put mac on its side. Dragged card from back to fronnt and woooosh out it came.Thank you all. And i put white tippex on screen to avoid my being a twithead. Nerxt time take it slow.

Happened to me too. Just before I went on holiday and I was clearing off my SD card for my camera. I left it there until I got back (having to buy a new card at the airport) then did a quick search. Found this clip on youTube featuring the L-shaped cardboard trick which worked perfectly for me on second attempt.

You've got to really blame Apple for the design of the machine when you consider the sheer amount of people who have made this mistake. At least I won't make it again.

J

THANK YOU!! The paper clip worked!! Also, thanks to all that posted -- I don't feel so stupid.

Think we have all learned to look before we leap... or in this case insert.

Thank YOU! The paper clip trick worked like a charm. You saved me from having to take my new iMac to a dealer 100 miles from where I live.

OMG I was getting grey hairs with stress at how stupid I was for putting the SD card in the Disc slot on my 1 mth new iMac, thank you so much! Paper clip in L shape got the SD card out.

Also nice to know I'm not the only one that did inserted before looking....never again!

Nothing new to add other than moral support and appreciation for the encouragement to persevere...

I made this error yesterday and was reasonably calm and collect whilst I could see it, doing all the sensible things like switching off the power and laying the iMac face down on a cloth, but then came out in a hot sweat when despite my gentle coaxing [using two pins] the wretched thing disappeard inside the CD slot altogether!

I was resigned to the thought of the chap in the call centre saying that this wasn't covered under the AppleCare Plan and so would cost me a fortune to fix, but thought I'd sleep on it and indeed had a restless night thinking up for myself many of the other removal techniques that I now read about here.

My conclusion was that I wouldn't bother and simply try and manage without the CD slot at all (which I seldom use), but reading this posts about the cardboard hook and the unlikelihood of the SD card disappearing too far inside the machine prompted me to have another go - and sure enough it worked!

It's made my day, and needless to say I now know where to come for advice when I next come unstuck. Thanks everyone!

I've done this a couple times. To get it back out, I've folded a piece of paper in half, inserted a folded corner in the bottom of the drive (so the fold side is down), pushed it in and swept it upward. It's caught the SD card each time.

Just to add my similar experience with the paper clip. It worked perfectly on the second try. One hint. Unfold the paper clip fully to get the farthest reach in the DVD slot. Thanks all those who participated in this issue. I use the two slots rather infrequently, but will know the use them by sight, not by intuition or feel!

Same thing happened to me this morning. It's happened to me in

the past and I've noticed my mistake before pushing it all the way

in and it's been pretty easy to get out with a tiny screwdriver.

Today as I was trying to get it out with the screwdriver my cat

jumped on the desk, hit my arm, and caused me to push it in

all the way so I couldn't see it.

Thanks to this forum I was able to get it out pretty easily with

the tilt and paperclip method that's been mentioned here.

From now on I'm keeping a piece of Scotch Tape over the bottom

of the CD slot to keep it from happening again.

I leave a CD half in slot and havedots of liquid paper on the front of monitor to save me being stupid again. it has helped..Ga,Ga!

Did the same thing myself today - after ringing helpline and wondering what to do i found this discussion thread and managed to extract my memory card out with a folded piece of card, took a few attempts to find the memory card but glad this thread has saved me the expense of a repair.

I did the same thing and after reading several posts here was able to extract the memory card using an L shaped paper clip. Thanks!