How to eject phantom "remote disc" on Mavericks?

Remote Disc is for accessing Shared CD/DVD drives on older hardware.

If you still want mounted .dmg files showing in the Sidebar, but don’t want to the Remote Disc icon also, then simply grab it and drag it off the Finder Window until the icon changes.

Just like when removing an app or folder from the Dock – poof, and it’s gone!

In Finder’s Preferences, the CD/DVD checkbox (under Devices) will show a - sign, and if you need it back in the future, just uncheck, then check the checkbox, and it’ll re-appear.

DVD or CD sharing: Using Remote Disc

I am looking for a way to get rid of it, as I have no need for it. I have had the same experience as the above user; trying to "eject" it does nothing. I have turned all of the sharing features off, but still it persists.

Right click on the remote disk and select remove from sidebar.

Thanks for posting this, this worked for me.

this doesn't remove it though, it just stops you from seeing it, when you go onto your macbook, for example I've added a picture, as you can see on my sidebar it says that it isn't there, but it clearly is, this happened when i tried to open a .dmg file i downloaded and an error message came up saying it cannot open, ever since then it hasn't gone, even after a restart, which, as there is no disk tray on my mac, should get rid of it.

Try clicking on it. Then see if you can go to file and delete. Or try click and hold and drag to trash.

I am having this same problem, exactly like the screenshot above. Anyone know what the "remote disk" actually is? Deleting or ejecting does not work. Get Info displays no information.

I too am having this annoying issue...

Try this:

To remove:

1. Launch Terminal
2. Enter the following string:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool false

1. Type your password to continue
2. Enter the following string:

killall Finder

The icon should now be gone from both Finder and your sidebar

The icon is present on Macs which do not have optical drives but may still need access to the physical media from another computer. To reverse and make the icon show again, repeat the steps but replace "false" with "true" in step 2.

I found it on this website: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/188990/how-do-i-remove-remote-disc-from -finder-not-in-the-sidebar

It gets rid of the icon in finder, but not sure if the file is technically gone?

The above advice didn't do anything for me. Same issue using a 2016 MacBook Pro. I got it to disappear by deleting the kexts from /Library/Extensions but it came back a day or two later.

Amazing, thank you.

Remote Disc is also for Macbook Pro's that have external apple DVD drives that connect through the USB port.