I tell you what, I like this mini but I'm getting aggrevated with problems I didn't think I would be having with a Mac. I detailed a few minor ones in another thread, but then today I had a disc stuck and had to call apple tech support to get it out.
I put in a cdrw with a bunch of pictures on it, wanted to import them into iPhoto. The disc wouldn't mount, then when I hit eject nothing. So it hit it a few times, the eject symbol came up but it wouldn't eject.
So I hop online to search for an answer as I'd seen this problem here and other places. Before I could do anything I get a box pop up that said "you need to restart your computer by holding down the power button.
Had this happen a few times. Had to power off then back on. Found a couple of possible solutions but nothing worked. Tried the disc utility but since the disc wasn't reading that hung up. Tried the console, didn't work. Tried cmd- e, nothing. Then, once when I rebooted it said "cannot find your bluetooth keyboard" which I don't even have. Weird.
Called apple tech and they had me do a few things, one of which was to hold down the mouse button while rebooting. Well, I say reboot/restart but it wouldn't actually do the restart from the apple menu. It would just hang at the shutdown screen with the little circle thing spinning. I had to power off with the power button, then back on. Holding down the mouse key didn't work, so she put me on hold to look up something. While on hold I did the power off/on again with the mouse held down and it finally ejected.
This disc worked perfectly fine in my PC, but them again it doesn't have a slot load drive (which IMO is a bad move). This is just irritating.
Anyway, is this stuck disc a common problem?
I put in a cdrw with a bunch of pictures on it, wanted to import them into iPhoto. The disc wouldn't mount, then when I hit eject nothing. So it hit it a few times, the eject symbol came up but it wouldn't eject.
So I hop online to search for an answer as I'd seen this problem here and other places. Before I could do anything I get a box pop up that said "you need to restart your computer by holding down the power button.
Had this happen a few times. Had to power off then back on. Found a couple of possible solutions but nothing worked. Tried the disc utility but since the disc wasn't reading that hung up. Tried the console, didn't work. Tried cmd- e, nothing. Then, once when I rebooted it said "cannot find your bluetooth keyboard" which I don't even have. Weird.
Called apple tech and they had me do a few things, one of which was to hold down the mouse button while rebooting. Well, I say reboot/restart but it wouldn't actually do the restart from the apple menu. It would just hang at the shutdown screen with the little circle thing spinning. I had to power off with the power button, then back on. Holding down the mouse key didn't work, so she put me on hold to look up something. While on hold I did the power off/on again with the mouse held down and it finally ejected.
This disc worked perfectly fine in my PC, but them again it doesn't have a slot load drive (which IMO is a bad move). This is just irritating.
Anyway, is this stuck disc a common problem?