Are you stuck?

Kendra asks,“How do I eject a CD or DVD on my Mac when press­ing the eject but­ton doesn’t work?“

This is a great ques­tion that I myself had to search apple sup­port for the answer when I first had this prob­lem on my first mac. Espe­cially when you think that a stuck disc is going to mean send­ing your machine in for repair. Firstly, remem­ber old CD and DVD dri­ves from those PC com­put­ers you used to use and how when I disc wouldn’t eject you would grab a paper clip and bend it straight to press on that magic man­ual eject but­ton? Don’t try that on a mac, cause you will search for­ever and never find such a but­ton. In fact you might dam­age some­thing. The solu­tion is eas­ier than it might seem.

In gen­eral a CD or DVD can be ejected on a Mac (Mac­Book or Mac­Book Pro) using the phys­i­cal eject but­ton or from the finder with­out any prob­lems, but occa­sion­ally this don’t work and the disc icon might dis­ap­pear from your Desk­top and you can’t get the disc out of your com­puter. How­ever, there is a trick you can try to extract the stuck disc.

• Restart your Mac
• After you hear the startup chime, press and hold your track­pad button
• After a minute or so and you think noth­ing is gonna hap­pen the disc ejects
• Release the but­ton once the disc ejects

99% of the time this will work. The other 1% has a more advance solu­tion that I won’t pub­lish. So if it doesn’t work for you. Just con­tact us and we’ll walk you through it.