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I inserted a dvd into my trusty old MacBook Pro and it will not eject. Ive been on the forums and have tried to use a few of the solutions there but it appears that they are for the older iOS. I'm running Catalina 10.15.7.
Help and thanks in advance!
macbook Pro 15" mid 2012
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
airgord1g wrote:
I inserted a dvd into my trusty old MacBook Pro and it will not eject. Ive been on the forums and have tried to use a few of the solutions there but it appears that they are for the older iOS. I'm running Catalina 10.15.7.
Help and thanks in advance!
macbook Pro 15" mid 2012
Many options here:
-dragging and dropping the icon for the CD into your trashcan
- Restart the computer and after the chime (older computers) press and hold down the left mouse button until the disc ejects.
- Press the Eject/Esc button on your keyboard.
- Click on the Eject button in the menubar, Finder>File>Eject
- Press Command E
Restart the computer enter reboot at the prompt or shutdown
- restart hold down trackpad button
- Open the Terminal application in your Applications/Utilities folder. copy & paste the following:
/usr/bin/drutil eject
If all this fails then try this:
- Boot the computer into single user mode—hold down Command S through the boot process— at the prompt copy & paste:
/usr/bin/drutil eject
airgord1g wrote:
I inserted a dvd into my trusty old MacBook Pro and it will not eject. Ive been on the forums and have tried to use a few of the solutions there but it appears that they are for the older iOS. I'm running Catalina 10.15.7.
Help and thanks in advance!
macbook Pro 15" mid 2012
Many options here:
-dragging and dropping the icon for the CD into your trashcan
- Restart the computer and after the chime (older computers) press and hold down the left mouse button until the disc ejects.
- Press the Eject/Esc button on your keyboard.
- Click on the Eject button in the menubar, Finder>File>Eject
- Press Command E
Restart the computer enter reboot at the prompt or shutdown
- restart hold down trackpad button
- Open the Terminal application in your Applications/Utilities folder. copy & paste the following:
/usr/bin/drutil eject
If all this fails then try this:
- Boot the computer into single user mode—hold down Command S through the boot process— at the prompt copy & paste:
/usr/bin/drutil eject
Thank you leroydouglas! Command E did the trick, for some reason a disk that reads in everything else I have would not read in this machine. The eject button did nothing and there was no icon on the screen either. This same disk reads in my ancient MacBook though. (burning to a external drive)
Thank you again!!
DVD+R stuck in my MBPro