my friend just got a mac pro today, how do you open the disk tray??? i have a macbook so mine's just a slot, so i'm of no help.
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a ridiculously simple question
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Press the Eject button on the keyboard. To open the second one (if he has one) press Option+Eject.
There is a key directly above the delete key on the keyboard.
If there is a disc in the machine, Apple+E (or dragging said item to the trash which turns into an eject button) will also work.
If there are two drives in the machine, you will (usually) have a little applet in the top menu bar that looks like an eject button... that will do it.
Here is a GREAT list of shortcuts for your new friend to learn!
Keyboard Shortcuts
Hope that helps!
If there is a disc in the machine, Apple+E (or dragging said item to the trash which turns into an eject button) will also work.
If there are two drives in the machine, you will (usually) have a little applet in the top menu bar that looks like an eject button... that will do it.
Here is a GREAT list of shortcuts for your new friend to learn!
Keyboard Shortcuts
Hope that helps!
haha thanks guys, we got it now 
he said he had pressed the eject button on the keyboard but nothing happened, so he figured it was something for itunes or something. he tried option and eject and that worked.
he said he had pressed the eject button on the keyboard but nothing happened, so he figured it was something for itunes or something. he tried option and eject and that worked.
You have to hold it for a second or so. OS X prevents you from accidentally ejecting a disk.
Yeah, I know it's kind of a modern Mac annoyance. I first learned of this "required/only way" to open the Mac drive when I first saw the mirrored-drive door G4 models in 2002. My machine at the time was also a PowerMac G4, but a Sawtooth AGP model that DOES have a button on the front of the drive. It seems like all the pro-level Mac towers since about 2002 have not had an easy-access hardware button on the drive.
I don't particularly like this (a software-based button) and it gets confusing when you have 2 internal optical drives, a firewire CDR, and an external Blu-ray drive...if you know what I mean. Plus, when you insert a CD wrong or your system crashes it can be buggier than hell (a horrendous annoyance)
Let's go back to basics. (BACK TO THE BUTTON...on the drive
I don't particularly like this (a software-based button) and it gets confusing when you have 2 internal optical drives, a firewire CDR, and an external Blu-ray drive...if you know what I mean. Plus, when you insert a CD wrong or your system crashes it can be buggier than hell (a horrendous annoyance)
Let's go back to basics. (BACK TO THE BUTTON...on the drive
if the system breaksdown, u can hold down the left mouse button on reboot, and the disc will eject as well.
LOL, I'm the friend she was talking about.. I've been a PC user forever and this was the first time I had used a Mac for more than 30 seconds at a store.
I didn't notice the eject button on the keyboard, and being a PC user I looked for a button on the case, or an eject option in the OS... but apparently you don't see the drive unless a disc is in it. I finally found under disk info? there was an option to eject / close, then right after that I noticed the eject button on the keyboard itself
It took me a couple hours to get adjusted to how things work on OS X compared to a PC, but I setup my raid array, started copying data from my linux box, and installed CS3 and office 2008 so I'm not completely Mac-tarded now.
I didn't notice the eject button on the keyboard, and being a PC user I looked for a button on the case, or an eject option in the OS... but apparently you don't see the drive unless a disc is in it. I finally found under disk info? there was an option to eject / close, then right after that I noticed the eject button on the keyboard itself
It took me a couple hours to get adjusted to how things work on OS X compared to a PC, but I setup my raid array, started copying data from my linux box, and installed CS3 and office 2008 so I'm not completely Mac-tarded now.
LOL, I'm the friend she was talking about.. I've been a PC user forever and this was the first time I had used a Mac for more than 30 seconds at a store.
I didn't notice the eject button on the keyboard, and being a PC user I looked for a button on the case, or an eject option in the OS... but apparently you don't see the drive unless a disc is in it. I finally found under disk info? there was an option to eject / close, then right after that I noticed the eject button on the keyboard itself
It took me a couple hours to get adjusted to how things work on OS X compared to a PC, but I setup my raid array, started copying data from my linux box, and installed CS3 and office 2008 so I'm not completely Mac-tarded now.
There's no emergency eject either, which in my mind has been a flaw in Apple machines since I started using them.
There's also a menu option to eject in the top right hand corner.
I use a keyboard on which the eject doesn't work without a software driver (?) so I use the menus.
I use a keyboard on which the eject doesn't work without a software driver (?) so I use the menus.
I've been a Mac user since 1984 and I still remember my first Mac without an eject button on the CD tray, probably around the year 2000. It must have taken me two hours to figure out how to open the damn thing.