So I stuck my SD card in my Superdrive slot.

[blakediamond]

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.

After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).

I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.

Thanks :D

[TuffLuffJimmy]

:eek:


Why do we get a thread like this every week? Who are these people shoving SD cards in their superdrives/??!?

[ziggyonice]

Cool story bro.

lol, No really I've heard of plenty of things get stuck in MacBook SuperDrives, but this is the first for an iMac. Whenever I've seen it happen, I usually take the computer, and hold onto it tightly. Then, with great momentum, yank the computer toward the ground (while holding onto it, of course). The momentum of the swing usually causes anything loose in the SuperDrive to come out.

Granted, I've only tried that on MacBooks. To do it on a 27" iMac is pretty impressive!

[belvdr]

I think you should punch yourself some more. That seems like an intelligent thing to do.

[blakediamond]

Cool story bro.

lol, No really I've heard of plenty of things get stuck in MacBook SuperDrives, but this is the first for an iMac. Whenever I've seen it happen, I usually take the computer, and hold onto it tightly. Then, with great momentum, yank the computer toward the ground (while holding onto it, of course). The momentum of the swing usually causes anything loose in the SuperDrive to come out.

Granted, I've only tried that on MacBooks. To do it on a 27" iMac is pretty impressive!

I almost broke my back (no homo), that thing is heavy.

[Trek2100]

Hold the phone, doesn't SD stand for superdrive:D:D:D, lol

[kgeier82]

Hold the phone, doesn't SD stand for superdrive:D:D:D, lol

or stupid dumba$$ :)

[daxomni]

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight.
Every intoxicated person I ever knew first had to make a decision to drink when they were still sober, which would seem to imply that you're not good at thinking straight with or without alcohol in your system.

[thejadedmonkey]

Every intoxicated person I ever knew first had to make a decision to drink when they were still sober, which would seem to imply that you're not good at thinking straight with or without alcohol in your system.

Yes, but that logic only holds up if you assume that drinking is inherently bad. ;)

[MacHamster68]

you dnt have to be intoxicated nor dump to stick the sd card in the superdrive , these two drives are on the side of the iMac you cant see them if you sit in front of the screen ...usually people sit in front of the screen usually when using a computer , dont know where some people who think its impossible to stick a sd card in the superdrive sit and i do not want to ask as it might look disturbing and not ergonomic so dangerous for your backs
its a design flaw to place two drives which are in fact only two slots on the side , ok you wont be able to slot a cd in the sd card reader but you can easy drop a sd card into the superdrive and i cant understand apple why they place a sd card reader and superdrive on the side of a iMac and then so close together in the middle of the side , further apart would not have spoiled the look and everybody would easy realising it (intoxicated or not) if the sd card reader would have been placed right at the bottom corner
it would even be easier to fit the sd card reader on the keyboard where its easy accessible without bending over to look where the small slot might be

http://www.davaomacuser.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/new-iMac-SD-card-slot.png

you wont be the first (there was one before you on another post already )
but i promise you you wont be the last one

[blakediamond]

Every intoxicated person I ever knew first had to make a decision to drink when they were still sober, which would seem to imply that you're not good at thinking straight with or without alcohol in your system.

Who said anything about drinking smarty pants?

[blakediamond]

you dnt have to be intoxicated nor dump to stick the sd card in the superdrive , these two drives are on the side of the iMac you cant see them if you sit in front of the screen ...usually people sit in front of the screen usually when using a computer , dont know where some people who think its impossible to stick a sd card in the superdrive sit and i do not want to ask as it might look disturbing and not ergonomic so dangerous for your backs
its a design flaw to place two drives which are in fact only two slots on the side , ok you wont be able to slot a cd in the sd card reader but you can easy drop a sd card into the superdrive and i cant understand apple why they place a sd card reader and superdrive on the side of a iMac and then so close together in the middle of the side , further apart would not have spoiled the look and everybody would easy realising it (intoxicated or not) if the sd card reader would have been placed right at the bottom corner
it would even be easier to fit the sd card reader on the keyboard where its easy accessible without bending over to look where the small slot might be

http://www.davaomacuser.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/new-iMac-SD-card-slot.png

you wont be the first (there was one before you on another post already )
but i promise you you wont be the last one

I couldn't agree with you more. The fact that the 2 slots are right on top of one another makes zero sense to me. But thanks for being the only person to back me up in this thread lol.

[daxomni]

Who said anything about drinking smarty pants?
You still chose to inhale, ingest, inject, whatever. Pay your $200 intoxication fee and be done with it.

[Shoesy]

I was just gonna laugh, but with the photos you've persuaded me - naughty place to put the sd slot apple.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

You still chose to inhale, ingest, inject, whatever. Pay your $200 intoxication fee and be done with it.

This is the most ridiculous bit of moral policing I've seen on this site. :rolleyes:

[shoulin333]

You still chose to inhale, ingest, inject, whatever. Pay your $200 intoxication fee and be done with it.

Glad im not your child, heh.. jk



Anyways to the OP, glad you got it out. I have many older customers and i have seen worse things. USB cables jammed into ethernet sockets, floppy discs in tray loading dvd drives, people hooking their ipod up to their computer via the headphone jack to the mic jack on the computer to sync it.

People do many dumb things that take effort, but getting that sd card into the super drive not only takes no effort but the slot is the same width.

[MH01]

$200 + wow just wow, this is the real crime. If i was quoted that i would tell them where to go and buy a portable Blue Ray player instead.

[fun173]

$200 + wow just wow, this is the real crime. If i was quoted that i would tell them where to go and buy a portable Blue Ray player instead.


HAHAHAHAHA

[belvdr]

This is the most ridiculous bit of moral policing I've seen on this site. :rolleyes:

Meh, I think he's just saying if you're dumb enough to get drunk and screw something up, you have to pay the consequences. I'd agree with that.

[blakediamond]

Meh, I think he's just saying if you're dumb enough to get drunk and screw something up, you have to pay the consequences. I'd agree with that.

AGAIN. I was not drunk :rolleyes:

And for anyone that disagrees that there is a major design flaw with the 2 slots being so close together is just nieve.

[Jiten]

I guess its basically like the "Uh oh I spilled my coke on my Macbook" in the portable forums. It happens. Though I agree that putting the SD slot and optical near each other maybe a bad idea but then again the iMac doesn't insert your SD card into its super drive for you. Now that would be a huge design flaw.

[MacHamster68]

putting the sd card reader slot so close to the superdrive slot , if we stick to comparing computers with cars , its a tradition here on the forum
then its like making the break and accelerator slim and putting them a inch apart and placing them out of sight
you simply cant see the two slots on the side , so you rely on your senses and as the sd card fits easy in the superdrive slot
and the offer to recover the sd card from the sd drive from a apple store for 200 seems for me a way of recovering the cost of the many returns of 27" iMacs with the countless minor problems

[Sir Cecil]

It's all a bit like complaining a keyboard's "3" key is too close to the "4" key, and that one might be pressed in error.
Intelligent life forms are obliged to overcome such difficulties if they wish to progress.
I would be interested in the results of a scientific study, testing a monkey's ability to distinguish the Superdrive from the SD slot. I'm sure that given a reward of tasty banana portion for each successful differentiation, the monkey would soon learn to put the SD card in the right slot, 100% of the time.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

It's all a bit like complaining a keyboard's "3" key is too close to the "4" key.
Intelligent life forms are obliged to overcome such difficulties if they wish to progress.
I would be interested in the results of a scientific test, studying a monkey's ability to distinguish the Superdrive from the SD slot. I'm sure that given a reward of tasty banana portion for successful differentiation, the monkey would soon learn to put the SD card in the right slot.

We're just saying there are better places for the slot to be. The slot itself feels just like the super drive slot, with no point of reference (unlike your strawman 3 and 4 keys). We've already had several threads in the forum of people putting SD cards in the super drive.

[Zyniker]

AGAIN. I was not drunk :rolleyes:

And for anyone that disagrees that there is a major design flaw with the 2 slots being so close together is just nieve.

Naïve, perhaps? Though I would have to disagree. It seems relatively straightforward that one should check before jamming something into the side of a computer. The fact that you did this blindly without even feeling the side of the computer first speaks volumes. Further, the SD slot is the bottom of the two slots. Just work your way up from the bottom edge of the machine until you find the first slot?

It's not a major design flaw. It was probably convenient for Apple to locate both slots on the same side of the machine and it may very well be easier to machine the necessary parts when both slots are on the same side. At any rate, user stupidity ≠ design flaw.

[Sir Cecil]

Nature is filled with examples of slots of differing purpose being too close together. A wise man will always check diligently before inserting anything into the appropriate slot. If one can't see what one is doing, use of the fingers to feel the correct slot is recommended.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Nature is filled with examples of slots of differing purpose being too close together. A wise man will always check diligently before inserting anything into the appropriate slot.

:eek::D:o
Post of the day.

[Sir Cecil]

:eek::D:o
Post of the day.

Now you'll never look at the side of your iMac the same way again :-)

[scottness]

I'm so glad I read this thread. I will now go punch myself to sleep.

[mtnDewFTW]

I lol'd
thanks for the story.
But I don't get it.. if you were so drunk, then why were you on your computer?
aren't there other things you could be doing?
being with people, sleeping, watching tv?
haha why even bother with pictures when you're drunk?
that's beyond me.
but that was awesome.

[LaunchpadBS]

AGAIN. I was not drunk :rolleyes:

And for anyone that disagrees that there is a major design flaw with the 2 slots being so close together is just nieve.

I agree, although I only speak from experience with notebooks but I work with 3 different machines (Apple, HP and an Asus(Play, work, work)) And they all either have different/additional ports and they are all in different places.
And in some cases(firewire/HDMI/USB) get a little confusing when I dont have time to move around the side and have a gander what I'm sticking my usb/ethernet/hdmi/firewire/small vga socket into.
Now the only one of the 3 that has port icons on the top is the HP so that makes life a little easier, but moving from my Asus to the MBP is a nightmare, I'm constantly mixing up the ports.

Standards please!!!!!

Am I right in assuming a majority of Apple owners are teetotal?
My personal opinion is you are missing out, nothing like a good bottle of vintage french red with a nice big steak :p

[blakediamond]

For the last time and for those of you that can't read I WAS NOT DRUNK.

To the nature dude, i hit it in both holes on my lady friends. So perhaps that's why I mistaked the slot/hole. What Up.

And for the rest of you player haters, you probably dont have the computer nor the means to obtain one so shut it.

That is all.

[Hopsdaballa04]

For the last time and for those of you that can't read I WAS NOT DRUNK.

To the nature dude, i hit it in both holes on my lady friends. So perhaps that's why I mistaked the slot/hole. What Up.

And for the rest of you player haters, you probably dont have the computer nor the means to obtain one so shut it.

That is all.

It's easily assumed that you were drunk. You did say in your original post that you were pretty intoxicated=Drunk.

[davidwarren]

OP is obviously an attention wh0re and wants everyone to know that he gets intoxicated by means other than alcohol. You're cool buddy.

[daxomni]

A wise man will always check diligently before inserting anything into the appropriate slot.
Heh, nice one. ;)

[blakediamond]

OP is obviously an attention wh0re and wants everyone to know that he gets intoxicated by means other than alcohol. You're cool buddy.

thanks. xoxo. :D

[blakediamond]

I don't understand how I am an attention whore because I choose to use a natrual herbal substance? :rolleyes:

[davidwarren]

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.

After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).

I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.

Thanks :D

Who said anything about drinking smarty pants?

For the last time and for those of you that can't read I WAS NOT DRUNK.

To the nature dude, i hit it in both holes on my lady friends. So perhaps that's why I mistaked the slot/hole. What Up.

And for the rest of you player haters, you probably dont have the computer nor the means to obtain one so shut it.

That is all.

AGAIN. I was not drunk :rolleyes:

And for anyone that disagrees that there is a major design flaw with the 2 slots being so close together is just nieve.

I don't understand how I am an attention whore because I choose to use a natrual herbal substance? :rolleyes:
because it is immaterial to getting the SD card in your CD slot, but half your posts are about it.

[Skyhigh223]

I lol'd.


Get some tweezers and have a poke around inside the superdrive slot. Make sure you have plenty of light. :P

And hell, if you break anything you can buy one hell of an external drive for $200

Who cares what the OP does for fun? I sure couldn't care less. Let it be. Stay on topic guys. :P

[blakediamond]

because it is immaterial to getting the SD card in your CD slot, but half your posts are about it.

Because you and everyone else keeps suggesting I was drunk when I stated numerous times that i was not.

Intoxication is the state of being affected by one or more psychoactive drugs. It can also refer to the effects caused by the ingestion of poison or by the overconsumption of normally harmless substances.

[rdowns]

.

[Hopsdaballa04]

Because you and everyone else keeps suggesting I was drunk when I stated numerous times that i was not.

Intoxication is the state of being affected by one or more psychoactive drugs. It can also refer to the effects caused by the ingestion of poison or by the overconsumption of normally harmless substances.

Smoking marijuana is illegal and a horrible idea when you're using your iMac.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Smoking marijuana is illegal
For nothing but political and monetary reasons. If you're gullible to believe it's for any other reason that's your issue.
and a horrible idea when you're using your iMac.
Yeah. :rolleyes: Nothing worse than downloading photos from an SD card while stoned. Or watching youtube. Horrible idea indeed. :rolleyes:

[EDWW]

You are a douche. Smoking marijuana is illegal and a horrible idea when you're using your iMac.

It's not like He was operating a chain saw...

[Maserati7200]

Okay, he was high. This is not the place about whether you approve of that or not, lets get back on topic, which in fact is a funny one.

Anyways to the OP, glad you got it out. I have many older customers and i have seen worse things. USB cables jammed into ethernet sockets, floppy discs in tray loading dvd drives, people hooking their ipod up to their computer via the headphone jack to the mic jack on the computer to sync it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I actually was laughing for a few minutes after reading that. Thanks :)

[dave92029]

I was using my 8 gb SD card to transfer photos from my iMac to my PC and I sliped the SD card into the DVD slot which is immediately above the SD slot! :eek:

How can I get the SD card out of the DVD slot?

Do I need to take the iMac to the Apple store and will they charge me to do this or is this under warranty (the iMac is one month old)? :apple:

Thanks

[spcdust]

Do I need to take the iMac to the Apple store and will they charge me to do this or is this under warranty (the iMac is one month old)? :apple:

Thanks

If it's just inside you could carefully try using a set of tweezers? Failing that, take it into Apple Store and explain the issue - it's definitely not covered by the guarantee (they only cover for manufacturing faults, not user error) but you never know, they may look on you benevolently. There are a couple of other threads discussing this so see what others have said.

[OllyW]

Some people on here might criticise you for not searching first but it's Xmas, so this might help (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=835147). :)

[trance2]

The exact thing happened to me, but it didn't go deep into the drive. I used a pair of tweezers to fish it out. Perhaps turn the computer on the side and let gravity pull the card towards the opening, then use tweezers or a sheet of firm paper to allow dust shield of the DVD drive to open.

I can see how this can happen easily. When I did it I really didn't look for the slot I just felt the side and absent-mindedly inserted the flash card. I think we all sort of do that and have been trained over the years with having the slots/ports not directly in front of us.

Good luck!

[Talarspeed]

Would it be a bad idea to leave CD/DVD sticking out of the drive as if it were ejected? This would definitely block the attempt to put an SD card in that slot.

[JoeG4]

Why not get an adhesive rubber foot type thing and stick it between the 2 slots. Then you can feel your way in.

http://www.westfloridacomponents.com/HW047/Clear+Square+Self-Adhesive+Rubber+Feet+Bumpers+12.7mm+X+5.8mm.html

something like that

[Mintin8]

Why not get an adhesive rubber foot type thing and stick it between the 2 slots. Then you can feel your way in.

http://www.westfloridacomponents.com/HW047/Clear+Square+Self-Adhesive+Rubber+Feet+Bumpers+12.7mm+X+5.8mm.html

something like that

That's a pretty good idea. May not look too great though.

[Kar98]

I was using my 8 gb SD card to transfer photos from my iMac to my PC and I sliped the SD card into the DVD slot which is immediately above the SD slot! :eek:

How can I get the SD card out of the DVD slot?

Do I need to take the iMac to the Apple store and will they charge me to do this or is this under warranty (the iMac is one month old)? :apple:

Thanks



Have you tried repairing permissions yet?

[slicecom]

Have you tried repairing permissions yet?

If that doesn't work, you can use Time Machine to go back to before you stuck your SD memory card in the DVD slot and then redo it, this time actually looking at what you're doing and not arbitrarily jamming it into the first hole you find on the side of your computer.

[MacHamster68]

someone metioned in another post a repair bill of around £200 for retrieving the sd card out of the superdrive as they have to take apart the whole imac

[dave92029]

Thank you to all that made suggestions and gave me their support.

I placed a towel on my desk, unpluged everything, turned the iMac on it's side, gently placed a thin knife in the DVD drive slot and nudged the SD memory card to show itself. :)

Everything is working again. :D

I admire Apple's design of the iMac, BUT placing the DVD slot and the SD memory slot on the same side is really DUMB! IMHO. Since the slots are on the side , we find ourselves blindly inserting the DVD and SD memory into their respective slots. The danger is that SD memory cards fit into the DVD slot very easily, Therefore that slot should be on the other side of the iMac. :apple::rolleyes::apple:

[JayQC]

Now for someone mistakingly inserting a DVD into the SD slot, THAT would be something :D

[rtrt]

I admire Apple's design of the iMac, BUT placing the DVD slot and the SD memory slot on the same side is really DUMB! IMHO. Since the slots are on the side , we find ourselves blindly inserting the DVD and SD memory into their respective slots. The danger is that SD memory cards fit into the DVD slot very easily, Therefore that slot should be on the other side of the iMac. :apple::rolleyes::apple:

agreed. if not on the other side then at least space them out

[fa8362]

I admire Apple's design of the iMac, BUT placing the DVD slot and the SD memory slot on the same side is really DUMB! IMHO.

If that's dumb, what do you call inserting an SD card into a DVD slot????

[spencers]

Do people not freaking look before sliding something into a slot nowadays? :rolleyes:

[fhall1]

If that doesn't work, you can use Time Machine to go back to before you stuck your SD memory card in the DVD slot and then redo it, this time actually looking at what you're doing and not arbitrarily jamming it into the first hole you find on the side of your computer.

Love it....great idea!

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Do people not freaking look before sliding something into a slot nowadays? :rolleyes:

Have you seen how gigantic these machines are? It's a bad design flaw if the user needs to get up from their chair and walk around the desk to look at the slots on the side just to put an SD card in.

[slicecom]

Have you seen how gigantic these machines are? It's a bad design flaw if the user needs to get up from their chair and walk around the desk to look at the slots on the side just to put an SD card in.

By your logic, a well designed iMac would have all its ports on the front.

No thanks.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

By your logic, a well designed iMac would have all its ports on the front.

No thanks.

No. By my logic I wouldn't have two ports where you slide things in next to each other and feel the exact same. You wouldn't run into this issue if the ports were on opposite sides, or if the card reader were on the underside of the iMac (where it should be, imho).

[raysfan81]

...usually people sit in front of the screen usually when using a computer

I don't know if this was meant to be humorous but I found it very funny:)

[raysfan81]

No. By my logic I wouldn't have two ports where you slide things in next to each other and feel the exact same. You wouldn't run into this issue if the ports were on opposite sides, or if the card reader were on the underside of the iMac (where it should be, imho).

I agree that the SD slot should be on the underside. I also think a few USB ports would be nice

[Uncle Pinny]

The love of my life has done the same to my i7 last week.

I now have a 4gb SD card deep inside my DVD drive so can't use my DVD drive or camera. Grrr....

I'm going to bite the bullet and do a teardown. Open up the beast and take the DVD drive out. Whilst there will pop in an SSD into it's place and get an Air Superdrive to use when needed.

Grrrr..... still love her though

[Jaro65]

It's all a bit like complaining a keyboard's "3" key is too close to the "4" key, and that one might be pressed in error.


LOL! That's just way too funny. :D May I suggest though that it may be way easier to relocate an SD card slot as compared to everyone getting used to a new type of keyboard? So no...I don't think those examples compare at all. But you really did make me laugh. :)

[BelowTheBelt]

Have you tried repairing permissions yet?

ROFL I needed that laugh this morning mate, thanks so much :D


Oh so good now,

[mtnDewFTW]

So I stuck my SD card in my Superdrive slot.

That's what she said.
lol just kidding. that wasn't even a good one

[Marilia]

So I did this silly thing too, stucking the card in the wrong slot. I believe so many other people will do it because the slots are easy to confound when you're doing things automatically.

After reading the few posts where people really are trying to help, I created this little instrument shown in the attached picture. It was cut from a soft plastic spatula (for painting), which is as thick as the card. With a little help from my man, the card came out easily, the cd drive is working perfectly and so is the card.

Some of you guys spend such a lot of testosterone in silly disputes and jokes... should do like us women and use your brains instead. Mistakes are done for us to learn from them.

PS: I mixed the toenail colour myself, too.:p

[Troy2000]

Although I have never gotten an SD card stuck in my Superdrive slot, I also consider the close proximity of these two slots (less that an inch) to be a design flaw. It would cost Apple little or nothing to simply move the SD card slot to the other side of the iMac.

[BelowTheBelt]

Although I have never gotten an SD card stuck in my Superdrive slot, I also consider the close proximity of these two slots (less that an inch) to be a design flaw. It would cost Apple little or nothing to simply move the SD card slot to the other side of the iMac.

Are you slow ?

How could it be a design flaw?
Both the SD Slot & SuperDrive seem to function just fine, I seem to have no problem when I use the SD Slot & SuperDrive as directed in my owners manual.

The flaw was the moron between the screen and the chair.

[irnchriz]

First time I stuck an SD card in the iMac it went in the superdrive slot. Easy to do it you are facing the front. Got it out easily enough though.

[dh2005]

I agree with both sides in this mini-dispute. Apple could've done better... but, for Christ's sake, be alert to the risk and look where you're going.

Feel from the bottom up (that's what she said...! Thought I'd get that in there now), and the first slot you come across is the one you want (that's what she said...! And I'm done).

[Yakuza]

So I did this silly thing too, stucking the card in the wrong slot. I believe so many other people will do it because the slots are easy to confound when you're doing things automatically.

After reading the few posts where people really are trying to help, I created this little instrument shown in the attached picture. It was cut from a soft plastic spatula (for painting), which is as thick as the card. With a little help from my man, the card came out easily, the cd drive is working perfectly and so is the card.

Some of you guys spend such a lot of testosterone in silly disputes and jokes... should do like us women and use your brains instead. Mistakes are done for us to learn from them.

PS: I mixed the toenail colour myself, too.:p

ahh, i see you also know the Havainas flip flops :)

[lostime]

the question is what was on the card that you had to see while drunk. Hangover Pics???

[Al Jonson]

WARNING RE: SD AND CD/DVD Design

O.k., this is the low down. I purchased the iMac 27" approximately one week ago. I, not paying attention accidently stuck the SD card into the CD/DVD slot on friday. I attempted to retrieve it but the card dropped all the way into the CD/DVD slot:eek:. I was perturbed. :mad:

I called myself every bad name I could think of, well not everything. I wanted to choke myself but I would have to breathe in order to perform that task. I was somewhat relieved to find this forum and reading complaints of others having the same possible issue. I wrote to Apple.com/feedback to them know of this design.

Well, I contacted the Apple Store and made an appointment to see them on Sunday. I was impressed they didn't say three weeks. For two days I worried if they would be able to get the SD card out of the slot after all I had multiple photos/video on the card. Yea, I could purchased an external USB CD/DVD, but why?

Well, I thought it would cost me my warranty since the mistake was mine. I had already spent over $2200.00 on the unit including software I did not want to spend another dime if possible.:(

I kept my appointment and within 10 minutes the tech at the Apple store retreived the card. Man, I was so excited I wanted to kiss the pretty APPle Care Lady (Literally). I ask her how the tech. retrieved the card and she told me with a piece of tape. Man, i just knew they would have to use a "Lighted Scope" after all the slot is very narrow.

Now I am a happy camper with my beautiful iMac sitting in on my desk smiling at me. Well not quite.:D PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!!!

[belltree]

Punching yourself in the brain case (head) can only help to ensure future silly mistakes.:rolleyes:

[Al Jonson]

LOL!!! you are absolutely correct. I stand accused.:D

[Sambo110]

I still don't get how you can put it in there. It only goes in around 2/3 of the way, so just don't let go until you know it's in the right one, easy.

[Little Endian]

The OPs story reminds me of the time I had a 2001 Kiva class slot loading Graphite imac. One week after I got it my 10 year old brother wound up sticking and odd shaped mini CD in the slot load drive:( Luckily I took the computer back to CompUSA and they happily exchanged it for a brand new one even after I told them the exact truth. CompUSA used to have exceptional customer service back in the earlier days...but then again perhaps that's why they wound up going under:rolleyes: Great customer service can sometimes open the floodgates of abuse.

[tiggger]

i just had my cd/dvd drive replaced cuz when i tried inserting a cd or dvd in the drive it would spit it right back out. when the tech guy took the drive out and tipped it over to unhook the wire harness... out popped a sd card, courtesy of my 2 year daughter. : )

[lionheartednyhc]

I almost broke my back (no homo), that thing is heavy.

This has got to be one of the stupidest, ignorant, memes ever.

[cuttocure]

Man, this a ruff crowd..

I am also one of the effected unfortunate SD inserters where the sun doesn't shine and want offer my solution.. Just slip a credit card midway up the slot and lower until you feel the SD card, then angle about 45 degrees and pull it out..

[BelowTheBelt]

Man, this a ruff crowd..


It's Rough not Ruff mate :)

[ViViDboarder]

Wow, this thread is awesome. A couple things...

Because you and everyone else keeps suggesting I was drunk when I stated numerous times that i was not.

Intoxication is the state of being affected by one or more psychoactive drugs. It can also refer to the effects caused by the ingestion of poison or by the overconsumption of normally harmless substances.

Dude... You're missing the point. Constantly correcting people that say drunk is NOT relevant to your getting the SD card stuck in the DVD slot... The fact that you KEEP pushing that point is what your quoted poster was referring to about attention.

So you didn't ingest alcohol... http://www.stacksandstacks.com/blog/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/congratulations.jpg

Have you tried repairing permissions yet?

If that doesn't work, you can use Time Machine to go back to before you stuck your SD memory card in the DVD slot and then redo it, this time actually looking at what you're doing and not arbitrarily jamming it into the first hole you find on the side of your computer.

That... Was awesome. :)

And... I couldn't resist... http://hzero.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/doingitwrong6.jpg

Now back on topic. :p It is silly that they are so close. They could easily have moved the SD card slot down a couple inches. :)

[WilliamG]

Now back on topic. :p It is silly that they are so close. They could easily have moved the SD card slot down a couple inches. :)

No they couldn't. If you look here, any lower would be in the fan exhaust:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac-Intel-27-Inch-Teardown/1236/2

[Mav3067]

Naïve, perhaps? Though I would have to disagree. It seems relatively straightforward that one should check before jamming something into the side of a computer. The fact that you did this blindly without even feeling the side of the computer first speaks volumes. Further, the SD slot is the bottom of the two slots. Just work your way up from the bottom edge of the machine until you find the first slot?

It's not a major design flaw. It was probably convenient for Apple to locate both slots on the same side of the machine and it may very well be easier to machine the necessary parts when both slots are on the same side. At any rate, user stupidity ≠ design flaw.

+1 Seriously, I read this whole thread thinking exactly the same thing. I see the argument against putting the two slots together but that doesn't make it a design flaw. I also agree that $200 is a horrendous price for likely doing exactly what the OP did to get it out. But lets face it, a single run of the finger could have prevented all this chaos.

[ViViDboarder]

No they couldn't. If you look here, any lower would be in the fan exhaust:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac-Intel-27-Inch-Teardown/1236/2

Ok... Then how about that HUGE empty space on the left side?

They did it to look nicer and I get that. It's not like EVERYONE puts it in the wrong spot, so I wouldn't really consider it a design flaw, but it is a little tricky. :p

I just got myself an EyeFi card so I don't have to worry about plugging anything in anyway :) Also, my DVD drive doesn't accept any disks as it is so there's nothing to break. I've been delaying bringing it into Applecare.

[DesignerOnMac]

Who said anything about drinking smarty pants?

Your original post says: 'Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight'.....according to the dictionary: drunk, inebriated, inebriate, impaired, drunken, tipsy, under the influence; informal plastered, smashed, bombed, sloshed, sozzled, hammered, sauced, lubricated, well-oiled, wrecked, juiced, blasted, stinko, blitzed, half-cut, fried, gassed, polluted, pissed, tanked (up), soaked, out of one's head, out of one's skull, loaded, trashed, buzzed, befuddled, hopped up, besotted, pickled, pixilated, canned, cockeyed, wasted, blotto, blind drunk, roaring drunk, dead drunk, punch-drunk, ripped, stewed, tight, high, merry, the worse for wear, far gone, pie-eyed, in one's cups, three sheets to the wind; Brit. informal bladdered, lashed.....

[Uncle Pinny]

Got mine out! Used a kitchen knife (not a sharp one - more the one you use for a meal). Turned it on it's head and screwed it around a bit from the top of the dvd slot pointing downwards.

VERY HAPPY!

[ugp]

I have almost done this on several occasions. But I always make sure that it sits in a snug secure spot before releasing it from my finger tips.

[macthijs]

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.

After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).

I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.

Thanks :D
I did the same yesterday.
That slot should be on the other site of the screen.(Apple?design?)
Thanks for the tip.
Gonna try tomorrow.

[wellyeah]

Of course now, it will never happen again. The two slots should be positioned at LEAST 3 (or more) inches apart.

Hindsight is, in fact 20/20.

Tomorrow, armed with Scotch tape - knife., towels and prayers, I will turn my iMac over in hopes to retrieve the SD card.

For as sophisticated a machine this is, this is a disturbing design flaw - no two ways about it.

[BelowTheBelt]

Of course now, it will never happen again. The two slots should be positioned at LEAST 3 (or more) inches apart.

Hindsight is, in fact 20/20.

Tomorrow, armed with Scotch tape - knife., towels and prayers, I will turn my iMac over in hopes to retrieve the SD card.

For as sophisticated a machine this is, this is a disturbing design flaw - no two ways about it.

You people are not very swift calling this a "design flaw" the appliance design works 100% on my two i7's, mind you I am smart enough to understand I should not stick the SD card in my SuperDrive.

The flaw you speak of is your problem not Apple's & thank gosh your not the last man on Earth repopulating the human race, lord help you would try in the wrong hole and wonder why you can not make babies.

[NiuFengLe]

If that doesn't work, you can use Time Machine to go back to before you stuck your SD memory card in the DVD slot and then redo it, this time actually looking at what you're doing and not arbitrarily jamming it into the first hole you find on the side of your computer.

LOL!!! I think I need to use time machine more. Man could I ever use it right now.

[NiuFengLe]

Of course now, it will never happen again. The two slots should be positioned at LEAST 3 (or more) inches apart.

Hindsight is, in fact 20/20.

Tomorrow, armed with Scotch tape - knife., towels and prayers, I will turn my iMac over in hopes to retrieve the SD card.

For as sophisticated a machine this is, this is a disturbing design flaw - no two ways about it.

Uh oh, I smell a class action law suit! Someone call a lawyer! Muahaha!!!

Design flaw my ass. You must not have much luck with ladies...

[ViViDboarder]

You people are not very swift calling this a "design flaw" the appliance design works 100% on my two i7's, mind you I am smart enough to understand I should not stick the SD card in my SuperDrive.

The flaw you speak of is your problem not Apple's & thank gosh your not the last man on Earth repopulating the human race, lord help you would try in the wrong hole and wonder why you can not make babies.

I don't think you understand the concept of a design flaw... it doesn't mean that EVERYONE is going to screw up.

The latest baby holding craze has been those slings for parents to carry their children. Most people are just fine but there have been several infant deaths because the top can pull together a bit to tight and suffocate the children.

This is a design flaw. They should have had the foresight to put extra support in the top of their sling.

Apple should have had the foresight to move the slots further apart when they put it on the side of a machine that is NOT in view of the user.

[wellyeah]

Uh oh, I smell a class action law suit! Someone call a lawyer! Muahaha!!!

Design flaw my ass. You must not have much luck with ladies...

Two drives of identical widths positioned 1/4" apart is a design flaw.

To those who feel so superior to never make this error, I bow to your greatness.

There will be many owners of this wonderful machine, in haste or distraction, that will unfortunately make this error. And one time will be their last, as was mine.

If the drives were at least 1 more inch apart it would make a difference.

And, with the help of an amazing tech-oriented friend, we retrieved the card, via a credit card and knife.

And you're right NiuFengLe, I do not have much 'luck with the ladies'.

I'm a woman.

You too BelowTheBelt. It must not suck being you.

[TSX]

I just stuck my sd card in my superdrive, lucky i was still able to see it and used a credit card to remove it .

[wellyeah]

Uh oh, I smell a class action law suit! Someone call a lawyer! Muahaha!!!

Design flaw my ass. You must not have much luck with ladies...

Two drives of identical widths positioned 1/4" apart = a design flaw.

To those who feel so superior to never make this error, I bow to your greatness.

There will be many owners of this wonderful machine, in haste or distraction, that will unfortunately make this error. And one time will be their last, as was mine.

If the drives were at least 1 more inch apart it would make a difference.

And, with the help of an amazing tech-oriented friend, we retrieved the card, via a credit card and knife.

And you're right NiuFengLe, I do not have much 'luck with the ladies'.

I'm a woman.

You too BelowTheBelt. It must not suck being you.

[mystikjoe]

Two drives of identical widths positioned 1/4" apart is a design flaw.

To those who feel so superior to never make this error, I bow to your greatness.

There will be many owners of this wonderful machine, in haste or distraction, that will unfortunately make this error. And one time will be their last, as was mine.

If the drives were at least 1 more inch apart it would make a difference.

And, with the help of an amazing tech-oriented friend, we retrieved the card, via a credit card and knife.

And you're right NiuFengLe, I do not have much 'luck with the ladies'.

I'm a woman.

You too BelowTheBelt. It must not suck being you.

it will never happen to me. i'm not lucky mine is wall mounted and i swing it towards me whenever i put in usb or sd card. i'm so afraid of scratching it with the usb it's just a habit. i can see how you could miss 1/4 is pretty tiny.

['73-B]

I don't think it's necessarily a design flaw, but after a long day I was trying to insert the SD card from my new camera into the SD slot while carrying on a conversation with my wife. Yup, wrong slot... Doh! My fault completely for not paying attention, but maybe Apple could have made it a little easier to not confuse the slot. The thing is, any alternative I can think of is significantly less elegant.

[Marilia]

And you're right NiuFengLe, I do not have much 'luck with the ladies'.

I'm a woman.



Soooo old fashioned to presume that everyone behind a computer is a man!
It reminds me of the last century on the internet when we were fewer.
If you don't even think that someone you talk to on the web is a woman, then surely you must be the guy who doesn't have much 'luck with the ladies'.:)

[Gimzotoy]

The very first thing I said to my wife upon unboxing my 27" was "I feel bad for the Genius Bar employees. They're going to have to fish thousands of SD cards out of the SuperDrive slot."

I'm not surprised. They're very close, and virtually indistinguishable from each other if you're in front of the computer. It's a case of style winning out over function. Sure, they look great together like that, but it certainly invites user error.

[Nostromo]

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[DarkCloud2015]

I find it hard to believe that so many people would stick things into slots without looking first, or at least feeling. (pun intended? :D)

There have been a lot of comments about how people shouldn't have to be "inconvenienced" by getting up to see the slots. Well, thankfully God gave us fingers. And fingers are touch sensitive, believe it or not.

So, my advice to all you "SD-in-SuperDrive" folks, if it's too much of a hassle to get up and look at the slots beforehand, how about running a finger up the side before jamming the SD in? Chances are, the smaller and lower slot you feel will probably be the one you're looking for.

[lemmac]

Okay I always thought I was fairly computer savvy, and I did the same thing. I was distracted by my daughter talking to me, and reached around the imac and just slid the sd card into the slot without paying attention. Yep, it wasn't the sd slot, but the cd slot. I recognized instantly what had happened, but the card slid in so quickly and easily I didn't have time to stop it from going all the way into the cd-rom. Having worked on product teams for years I feel even more foolish, but recognize why we had design teams, and lots of test users. The point of good design isn't just functionality, but helping to design out user error (okay some folks call it stupidity). The point is that to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction a company needs to come up with a design with the lowest possible incidence of user error. Perhaps Apple can come up with a simple insert that can cover the cd-rom slot. I am betting that people use the sd card slot far more often than the cd-rom slot. This could help protect a lot of customers from themselves. Thanks for the ideas on how to remove the sd card. I will try them tonight.

[Ubuntu]

It's all a bit like complaining a keyboard's "3" key is too close to the "4" key


...no its not? You can actually see the keys from normal angle, and there's no real risk if you put your SD card on the 3 or 4 key. Don't talk about intelligence when you're clearly lacking it.

[Neous]

it happened to me

now before fully inserting my SD card I wiggle it up and down before I push it in completely.

I can understand how someone who hasn't experience it would not understand how the card got inserted in the wrong slot. I've used it correctly many times before it happened to me, and I doubt I was just lucky there was something I didn't do that one time. So if you use it as often as some of us do be careful.

[Sixtafoua]

I do this all the time, i always manage to get it out with a paperclip, but one day its going to get stuck inside... Why did they put them so close?:mad:

[aliensporebomb]

I have fixed this problem permanently!

I have an 8 GB SD card stuck in the slot and it just stays there and I don't take it out.

No 2 a.m. awkwardly jamming SD cards into the wrong slot.

OH CRAP! I STUCK IT IN THE SUPERDRIVE SLOT!

[Mike Macintosh]

I did this before the summer months, stuck a SD card in the slot and I am like OH CRAP, luckily though after a hour work and a very very long paperclip it came out of the superdrive, no probs with the superdrive either after this.

Whenever I use my camera now I just plug it in because iPhoto will pick up all pics I have taken whither on the card or on the phones internal memory.

[zoubly]

I did the same without alcohol.
You saved my day.

[barneyrubb]

Placed the iMac on its side and used an old credit card with a slot the size of the SD card cut out of it. Swiped the card into the drive until I was able to move the SD card into the opening. Then used tweezers to remove the SD card.

[George Knighton]

:eek:


Why do we get a thread like this every week? Who are these people shoving SD cards in their superdrives/??!?

ROFL.... I dunno. But I have seen enough of the stories to wonder if perhaps a minor redesign might be in order. :-)

That or an electronic sobriety test as the iMac powers up.

[iMacN00b]

I just stuck my sd card in my superdrive, lucky i was still able to see it and used a credit card to remove it .

Me too, I used tweezers.

I've worked with computers for 15 years, and built them for several years at uni before that.

I've never put the wrong media in a computer optical/floppy/flash drive before, and my issue was that I was in a hurry to transfer pictures from the wife and just put the card in "By Feel" as the 27" is so wide I have to physically crane my head around it to find the SD card.

User error? Yes.
Will I do it again? No.
Could part of the issue be portioned to the design of an SDCard slot a few mm from the optical drive? Abso-bloody-loutely!

Stupid design choice, which will no doubt be changed in future models.

/iMacN00b

[CrackedButter]

A simple solution would be to shift the SD card opening on its axis making insertion vertically impossible because the slot would be resting on a diagonal angle. You'd need to slightly twist your wrist to insert the card and therefore you'd know if it was going into the right slot or not.

Or move the slot down further down the iMac screen.

[Grant.Logan2]

Naïve, perhaps? Though I would have to disagree. It seems relatively straightforward that one should check before jamming something into the side of a computer. The fact that you did this blindly without even feeling the side of the computer first speaks volumes. Further, the SD slot is the bottom of the two slots. Just work your way up from the bottom edge of the machine until you find the first slot?

It's not a major design flaw. It was probably convenient for Apple to locate both slots on the same side of the machine and it may very well be easier to machine the necessary parts when both slots are on the same side. At any rate, user stupidity ≠ design flaw.

I should hope that if im paying $1500 for a computer, they wouldn't let the fact that you could accidentally put an sd card in the super drive go, just because it saved time or was easier

I have done it before, luckily...mine got caught by the dust strip so that i could use a paperclip to get it out...its not exactly the best place to put it, but its there and i will tolerate it...theres no need to say everything apple does is perfect.

[Meyvn]

The love of my life has done the same to my i7 last week.

I now have a 4gb SD card deep inside my DVD drive so can't use my DVD drive or camera. Grrr....

I'm going to bite the bullet and do a teardown. Open up the beast and take the DVD drive out. Whilst there will pop in an SSD into it's place and get an Air Superdrive to use when needed.

Grrrr..... still love her though

Good luck with the SSD, but do NOT buy the MBA SuperDrive. It will not work with your iMac! For whatever mindbogglingly stupid reason, it will only work with the MBA and the Mac mini server (the one without its own optical drive). I mean sure, with other Macs you don't *definitely* need one, but who knows? It could come in handy.

[thesquish]

Easy solution- Fold a piece of paper in half
Slide the folded edge into the upper part of the CD slot
Gently slide the paper down to the bottom of the slot
Gently pull out the paper
Your SD card should now be inside the paper! And a smile of relief on your face!
It worked for me first attempt.
Good luck silly

[bushman4]

This is definitely a design flaw.

[natasha69]

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.

After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).

I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.

Thanks :D

keep the toaster away from you on your wedding night. lol.

[iRobby]

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.

After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).

I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.

Thanks :D

1) How the hell were you able to balance the 30lb computer on your knee steady enough to insert a small hair clip inside while you were drunk?

2) can we get pics of your bruised forehead from all the punching you did?

[wangkom]

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.

After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).

I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.

Thanks :D

Ever heard of tweezers? Just kidding. Kinda funny though that you'd come here to announce your shameful act, hehe.

[Meever]

Yeah, drunken stupidity aside those two holes are awfully close to each other.....

But ascetically there's no other place to really put it.

[bushman4]

Yeah, drunken stupidity aside those two holes are awfully close to each other.....

But ascetically there's no other place to really put it.

That may be true, However Apple could have put a safety flap on the DVD drive.

[ravenvii]

Wow, a year-old thread of SD-cards-in-Superdrive-slots...

Maybe Apple should put the SD slot on the *other* side of the iMac?

[shotts56]

Yeah, drunken stupidity aside those two holes are awfully close to each other.....


Being drunk is no excuse for putting something in the wrong hole, even although they are awfully close to each other.

So says my wife.

[Roheryn]

Easy solution- Fold a piece of paper in half
Slide the folded edge into the upper part of the CD slot
Gently slide the paper down to the bottom of the slot
Gently pull out the paper
Your SD card should now be inside the paper! And a smile of relief on your face!
It worked for me first attempt.
Good luck silly

I did this yesterday and immediately searched the forums here. Your solution worked perfectly and I had my SD card back 90 seconds later. Many thanks !
I'm a 22 year Mac user and have never done this before. Just carelessness, I guess...:o

[manook]

what i usually do is use a paper 3d glasses

[Herdfan]

I guess its basically like the "Uh oh I spilled my coke on my Macbook" in the portable forums. It happens.

On any keyboard for that matter. We had one girl at work that was so bad about it, we got Pepsi to replace the "can" machine with a "bottle" machine.

I just want to know what was on the pics that having to see them immediately while intoxicated was necessary. :eek::D

[williamli]

for anyone with this problem, here is how I fixed mine.. just cut a useless CD twice and boom... you got the tool!

[alaistair]

I honestly thought doing this sort of thing was reserved for idiots.... until this morning when putting SD card in myself whilst just checking that Adobe lightroom was loading and managed to slot SD card straight in Superdrive slot.

Feeling of complete stupidity then came over me as I realised what i'd done.

My method of extracting said SD card was as follows:

1. Unplug everything
2. Turn iMac on side and give it a light shake to get SD card as close to entrance as possible
3. Get internal part of biro and ferret around in Superdrive slot carefully to determine location of SD card.
4. Eek SD card so it is just sticking back out of Superdrive
5. Get creditcard to then slide behind SD card to remove it fully.
6. Turn machine back on
7. Logon to this forum and share with world how stupid i've been.

Alaistair

[noodles187]

I honestly thought doing this sort of thing was reserved for idiots.... until this morning when putting SD card in myself whilst just checking that Adobe lightroom was loading and managed to slot SD card straight in Superdrive slot.

Feeling of complete stupidity then came over me as I realised what i'd done.

My method of extracting said SD card was as follows:

1. Unplug everything
2. Turn iMac on side and give it a light shake to get SD card as close to entrance as possible
3. Get internal part of biro and ferret around in Superdrive slot carefully to determine location of SD card.
4. Eek SD card so it is just sticking back out of Superdrive
5. Get creditcard to then slide behind SD card to remove it fully.
6. Turn machine back on
7. Logon to this forum and share with world how stupid i've been.

Alaistair


Had to confess that i also fell in the ranks of STUPIDS this morning and followed your step and the cut CD step and finally got my SD card out.

[Montymitch]

Done it. I too thought that I was above all this foolishness, butin it went. Fortunately for me I caught myself and didn't slam it all the way in, so I was able to fish it out with relative ease.

[err404]

As a note, don't put mini cd's in there either. I had a printer that came with Mac software on a 3" cd a few years ago. The motor pulled it in but the drive didn't actually sense the disc, so it wouldn't read or eject the disc.

[Spike88]

....

My method of extracting said SD card was as follows:

1. Unplug everything
2. Turn iMac on side and give it a light shake to get SD card as close to entrance as possible
3. Get internal part of biro and ferret around in Superdrive slot carefully to determine location of SD card.
4. Eek SD card so it is just sticking back out of Superdrive
5. Get creditcard to then slide behind SD card to remove it fully.
6. Turn machine back on
7. Don't do it again!!!!!

Alaistair

Approx 5 weeks ago, my 14 year old daughter did the same thing. She pushed the SD card "all the way in" and to her surprise, it didn't stop. It did go "all the way in". Then, she realized that she accidentally pushed it into the CD/DVD slot - instead of the SD slot (which is slightly lower). For me, the above steps worked. I also used tweezers - to grab is one corner and pull back out.

And yes, it can happen to anyone. Especially when they have their mind on something else....

Note to iMac box designers.... One should have the CD/DVD drive on one side and the SD slot on the opposite side. Or as a minimum, put more distance between both slots. re: Much more then its current distance.

[Sankersizzle]

Every intoxicated person I ever knew first had to make a decision to drink when they were still sober, which would seem to imply that you're not good at thinking straight with or without alcohol in your system.

Uptight 60 year old man who's never had any fun in his life detected.

[Acorn]

I have read of alot of people trying to put mini disks in the dvd slot and having them fall inside. i never realized how close the sd slot was to the dvd slot though.

[88 King]

I've done this as well, late night, tired, was not looking, lucky got it out by doing a 90 degree turn and shake.

Here is my solution to stop this happen again. I've some micro SD to SD card adapters, so i simply have one of them in the SD slot all the time. This way, I'll have to remove it before insert a another SD card, which stop the habit of inset the card without looking and end up slot it into the DVD drive.

[lc25]

Brilliant :D


Being drunk is no excuse for putting something in the wrong hole, even although they are awfully close to each other.

So says my wife.

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Party on Garth. As far as bone head intoxicated moves go sticking a SD card in the SuperDrive ain't that bad. Deciding it would be a good idea to take your iMac apart while intoxicated, "I can fix it", would be a different story. Good to hear you got everything sorted out.

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Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight.
Every intoxicated person I ever knew first had to make a decision to drink when they were still sober, which would seem to imply that you're not good at thinking straight with or without alcohol in your system.

Flawed logic - Im often already intoxicated before I decide if I want to get intoxicated.

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Every intoxicated person I ever knew first had to make a decision to drink when they were still sober, which would seem to imply that you're not good at thinking straight with or without alcohol in your system.

Who said anything about drinking smarty pants?

Perhaps the term 'baked' would have been more appropriate.

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Nature is filled with examples of slots of differing purpose being too close together. A wise man will always check diligently before inserting anything into the appropriate slot. If one can't see what one is doing, use of the fingers to feel the correct slot is recommended.

You sir are a paragon of philosophy

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Because you and everyone else keeps suggesting I was drunk when I stated numerous times that i was not.

Intoxication is the state of being affected by one or more psychoactive drugs. It can also refer to the effects caused by the ingestion of poison or by the overconsumption of normally harmless substances.

Smoking marijuana is illegal and a horrible idea when you're using your iMac.

But it comes in pretty handy when you want to 'think different'

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Do people not freaking look before sliding something into a slot nowadays? :rolleyes:

That's what she said.

[rjphoto]

AGAIN. I was not drunk :rolleyes:

Wait, What?

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight

But, I agree, they are too close together.

Don't worry, the next iMac probably won't have the Optical drive... But that's JMHO.

[Razeus]

This is why I always keep a CD or DVD in my drive.

[joanbx]

The vacum cleaner sucked the SD card out of the DVD slot.

[Launie]

I am in the same situation with my iMac. This is a very easy mistake to make. I also agree that it is a flaw on the Mac. Once you know where the SD drive is located, there is no need to turn your screen to see where to stick it.

But the sick feeling that you get when the SD card does not stop half way like your used to.... is petrifying.

Please remember that this is a site to help, not insult.
:cool:

[rjphoto]

Here's a new twist to this problem...

A guy I know was trying to put his Sony Memory Stick Pro into the SD slot and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working... Then accidentally stuck it into the optical drive on the second try. Had to leave for work and forgot to tell anyone. His son comes home from school and has to burn a cd for class... Pops in a blank disk, burns his files and tries to eject it... ooopppps. It makes a grinding noise... Calls Dad.

Optical drive had to be taken out and taken apart.

[KenOzz]

Just done the same thing, put my memory card into the DVD drive (DUH):mad:

The initial shock when you realise what you have done is hard to bear,:eek: still I did a google search and found you guys :) it's some comfort in not being the only one who as done this

I eventually fished mine out using a plastic serving tool we use for Pizza, I think the trick is to get something plastic that is just a bit smaller in thickness than the Drive opening

Tip the Mac on its side (with the power off) and gently wiggle the plastic tool about till it finds the card, I did this for a while and then it just popped out :D

The design is not to good with the Card slot just under the Drive, in my case I just reached around the side of my mac, found a slot and popped my card in,

So in future I will get up from my chair and look directly at the slots before I insert my SD card (we that's the theory any way);)

[WAM2]

I Did this before, Luckly I Had a dvd in there and ejected it, the SD Card came right out. Ahahaahaha

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The vacum cleaner sucked the SD card out of the DVD slot.

Cant that damage the Lazar?

[gumerson]

Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.

After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).

I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.

Thanks :D

I'm not gonna tell now who was the guilty one, my girl or myself, the fact it's that we got the sd card completely trapped inside the superdrive. We try the cd in to method, and it wasn't work, nor the sd card out, nor the cd less than auto eject after some funny noises. So the fix came with help of some kind of bricolage.

We both, took a cardboard, or plasticboard, as slim to get into the superdrive, as long for not to get stucked too into it, and as strong to get the thing out. So we took an scissors and we made some like that:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3428582640161&set=a.1013491624395.2002489.1438195004&type=1

so just get the cardboard piece inside the supper drive move from up to down gently and you will fished the sd card in almost one or two tries. We really get it ten minutes before posting on here.

You all be luck!!

[ourcol]

Just for the record, I have a PhD, teach human-computer interaction at undergraduate and graduate level and have done so for over 20 years. I am also very satisfied with my love life. And yet even I (hard to believe, know) inserted an SD card into the CD slot on my iMac. It's official. This *is* a design flaw. And it is precisely the fact that I wasn't paying attention and was careless that makes it one. My two consolations are that I can use in my courses (1) my error to illustrate the misuse of affordances in device design, and (2) the intemperate flaming of some of the sorry jerks on this site as great examples of the dynamics of social networking. Thank you, Apple. Thank you, MacRumors.

BTW, I tried the credit card technique, but my card seems too far gone to be retrieved that way.

[aComicBookFan]

With a little bit of editing this thread could be a classic. It was great entertainment to read it from beginning to end! Only a fuzzy camera phone picture could top the text.

-=- Boris

[CRIIM44]

I could not help but laugh when i saw this thread title. I'm sure if my iMac had an SD card slot that close to the superdrive i would have put the card in there at least once. Should get one of those bicycle mirrors and mount it on the side of the machine so you can look at the mirror and see where you are putting the card.

and if its really stuck in there that bad a set of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PBQ9K8/ref=oh_o05_s01_i00_details

and a set of small torx drivers and you'll have it out pretty quickly.

[kateslotover]

Man, this a ruff crowd..

I am also one of the effected unfortunate SD inserters where the sun doesn't shine and want offer my solution.. Just slip a credit card midway up the slot and lower until you feel the SD card, then angle about 45 degrees and pull it out..

That worked a treat! Thanks :) I agree it's a stupid thing to do – and maybe this is a joke meme forum – but I did it & was freaked out & your trick saved me. So I bothered to register so I could post and say thanks. And you'll probably never even see this post, sadly, but hopefully some positive vibes will come your way. – Kate

[RobinHood5]

AGAIN. I was not drunk :rolleyes:

And for anyone that disagrees that there is a major design flaw with the 2 slots being so close together is just nieve.

You saidmin the post that you were very intoxicated....

[DeF46]

This happened to me too twice over the past two years.

[ellaimac]

On one of the two PCs in the house, The USB and HDMI are close to each other, Here's what happened...

Once upon a time~~~

Me: *hmm, I wanna play music that are on my flash drive*
Me: ~gets flashdrive and tries to put it in the laptop~
Me: Why won't it go in?! is it broken?!
Me: ~looks at the ports~ Oops! the whole time i was sticking it onto the HDMI port, hehehe
Me: ~puts it in the right port~
~Computer reads the disk~
Me: ~Plays Rebecca Black~ Ahh, Finally...

The End~~~

[JoeG4]

On some pc laptops there's an esata port that's also a usb port.. and sometimes you have to fiddle around to get a USB into them