How do I disable or delay "Eject" button on Magic Keyboard?

The "Eject" button holds no delay at all for opening the drive in Mac Pro – too responsive! I somehow manage to run into it a few times a day quite unfortunately. Any helpful solutions would be appreciated.

Mac Pro (Mid 2012), macOS Sierra (10.12.2), 2 x 6-core 3.45GHz 64GB 850 Evo SSD

Posted on Jan 23, 2017 10:36 PM

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Sep 13, 2017 9:53 AM in response to ShaneMAGman

A little late, but hope this helps:

I had Karabiner Elements working great to reassign the eject key and disable the current one with Sierra on my older Mac Pro - until a recent OS update. I assigned the F6 key to "eject", and that disabled the regular "eject" key. Karabiner also had a recent update (a couple days ago) that appeared to default all my keyboard mods back to standard Apple. Went back to an earlier version in backup, and it didn't fix the problem. Now, I still assign the F6 to "Eject" (and it works fine there), but the "Eject" button is no longer disabled. Did a lot of searching on the net and it seems that Apple has us on this one for now. At this point, I might try making a cover that fits over that corner, so when I accidentally hit the key, it doesn't work.

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How do I disable or delay "Eject" button on Magic Keyboard?

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