Acutally when you reboot yoru mac you hold down the bottompart of the mouse pad to eject a dvd drive.
Take care all. On Feb 25, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Catherine, > > The eject key on your Mac can also be used to eject DVDs and CDs in your > optical drive. Using the shortcut Command-E for "eject" will also eject > these optical media, or unmount drives. If you install applications that you > downloaded as .dmg files, after you move the new app to your Applications > folder or run the installation, you can eject the .dmg file and move it to > the Trash. Command-E works when you are focused on the .dmg file in Finder, > as well as finding the option in the context menu (with VO-Shift-M). I > recall that holding down the eject key when you boot or reboot your Mac is > one of the ways to try forcing a DVD or CD in the optical drive to eject, > when it is giving you problems. > > The eject key is also used for certain shortcuts like for putting your Mac to > sleep (Command-Option-Eject). Except, on the late 2011 MacBook Air models, > they've removed the eject key so I have to press the power button and then > press "s" to sleep the machine. > > P.S. I recall there was a question earlier about why there were no .dmg files > for apps that you install from the Mac App Store. Software is often > distributed as "disk image" files because these files get certain permission > privileges in the system, like mounted hard drives. Since the Mac App Store > is supposed to be a secure source of software, you don't need an intermediate > step that has to be granted special privileges to install apps, hence no .dmg > file is necessary for that application -- it just gets installed directly > with nothing to send to the Trash afterwards. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Feb 25, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> That means to safly remove the drive. It unmounts the drive from the system >> and you can then safly unplug it. >> On Feb 25, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Catherine G wrote: >> >>> What does "eject" mean on my Mac, and how does one do that? >>> >>> >>> >>> Catherine Golding >>> >>> Olympia, Washington >>> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
