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Eject button not working?

TheBritishBloke

TheBritishBloke

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I don't know if this is normal. However I have the mid-2009 uMBP, and the eject button on my keyboard doesn't eject the DVD or the eject an external device, even if i select the item on my desktop first.

Is this normal?

Thanks!
 
Are you tapping it or holding it down for a second or two because I believe you have to hold it down for 2 seconds well that's what I heard.

ChrisN
 
Did you try holding eject down a few seconds. For external usb eject, go into finder and click on the eject symbol next to the device.
 
I usually just tap it to do it.

I just tried it with holding it down for a couple of seconds, it worked! Thanks so much :D. Appreciate the help (y)
 
Yeah you gotta hold it down. Must be to avoid accidentally hitting it and ejecting. BTW, my fav way to shutdown: Command + Option + Control + Eject :cool:
 
From what I understand (don't have a MBP yet) the same applies to the caps lock key, it needs to be held down for a bit longer than is traditional. Both are to prevent accidental presses from taking effect.
 
DewGuy1999 said:
From what I understand (don't have a MBP yet) the same applies to the caps lock key, it needs to be held down for a bit longer than is traditional. Both are to prevent accidental presses from taking effect.
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the hold to turn on the caps lock doesn't apply to my 13 mbp. only one short press does it. Any way to change that? I would like the hold to enable
 
andrew12090 said:
the hold to turn on the caps lock doesn't apply to my 13 mbp. only one short press does it. Any way to change that? I would like the hold to enable
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Like I said I don't have a MBP yet, so I don't have any first hand experience with this feature, but I remember reading about it sometime in the recent past and I just assumed it applied to all newer Macs, I think I heard about it after Leopard came out. I'm currently using Tiger on a G4 iMac and the caps lock doesn't apply, but the eject does. The delay on eject I believe started with Tiger. I guess the caps lock delay only effects certain Macs and I don't have any idea which ones, I guess I'll just stop passing that info around unless someone is having a problem with the caps lock. Sorry.
 
Just to add an interesting tidbit of information to this thread, for those who are relatively new to the Mac world, the behavior of the eject button was changed with the 10.4.9 update. Prior to that update, a simple tap of the eject button was all that was needed. It was changed to prevent accidental ejection.
 
Bill Gates said:
Just to add an interesting tidbit of information to this thread, for those who are relatively new to the Mac world, the behavior of the eject button was changed with the 10.4.9 update. Prior to that update, a simple tap of the eject button was all that was needed. It was changed to prevent accidental ejection.
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Thanks for pinpointing when that change came about.
 
Bill Gates said:
Just to add an interesting tidbit of information to this thread, for those who are relatively new to the Mac world, the behavior of the eject button was changed with the 10.4.9 update. Prior to that update, a simple tap of the eject button was all that was needed. It was changed to prevent accidental ejection.
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Well that is not the issue I am having. I do remember the old Tiger method, it was too easy to eject.

Now, I can lean on it for 1 second or 30-it still doesn't eject AT ALL :(
 
Also had an issue with stuck disc. Held the eject button down and sounded like drive was trying to eject the disc but was not able to do so. I restarted MBP and held down the trackpad which ejected the disk. Mine is June '09 MBP.
 
I have noticed something since upgrading to 10.5.8:

If you do not have a disc or mounted volume currently in the Mac or on the desktop, the eject button will not work. Anyone else?
 
Enigmafan420 said:
Am at work on windoze right now so can't test. But will when I get home.

What does it mean if it does or does not work?

Thanks for asking :)
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Well, if command + E works then it's probably just something to do with the actual eject key, maybe something as innocuous as piece of dirt or something under the keycap preventing it from working.
 
celticpride678 said:
I have noticed something since upgrading to 10.5.8:

If you do not have a disc or mounted volume currently in the Mac or on the desktop, the eject button will not work. Anyone else?
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I don't imagine it would. On my G4 iMac with a non-slot load (drawer type) optical drive the eject also opens the drawer if nothing is in the drive to allow you to put a disc in. On a slot load drive this behavior wouldn't make any sense so I can see where it wouldn't work. Also, on my iMac the eject key only works for the optical drive, it doesn't work for dismounting volumes.
 
Enigmafan420 said:
Okay so Command-E does NOT work?!?

The only way I can eject a disc is using the trash can in OS-X and by right clicking and ejecting the drive Icon when in Windows.

This is really odd-I KNOW I didn't have this problem in 10.5.7
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I don't have a slot-load drive so I'm not experienced with them, but do you have to select the disc (so it's highlighted) and then eject it? If so are you doing that?
 
DewGuy1999 said:
I don't have a slot-load drive so I'm not experienced with them, but do you have to select the disc (so it's highlighted) and then eject it? If so are you doing that?
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I have not actually tried that. Will do so when I get home from work.

However, prior to this issue, I never had to have the disc highlighted. Just pressed the eject button and the drive spit it out.

Weird that this is also not working in bootcamp. It USED to work there as well.
 
reel2reel said:
Yeah you gotta hold it down. Must be to avoid accidentally hitting it and ejecting. BTW, my fav way to shutdown: Command + Option + Control + Eject :cool:
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I just tried this out of curiosity and was mainly expecting to be greeted with the Restart/Sleep/Shut Down window like if you press the power button... I must say that you're lucky I had just closed my important applications :p :D
 
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