So about a week ago I finally upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave. Since then it seems that my external optical drives are acting up. I only use them with iTunes as I'm old school and still often buy music CDs. I actually have two optical drives. When I plug them in they will be recognized but often times when I try to eject the disc the tray does not open but the CD disappears from iTunes. Is there a way to resolve this aside from reverting back to High Sierra?
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External optical drive issues in Mojave
- Thread starter bigpoppamac31
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I have a suggestion.
It may or may not help, but it won't cost you anything to try.
Download the free menu bar utility called Semulov:
It puts an icon in the menu bar.
Next time you have a CD that won't eject, go to the Semulov menu and see if it will "unmount" that way. I'm thinking that the unmount procedure will kick the disk out of the CD drive.
Again, this costs you nothing, and it's worth a try.
If it DOES work, please come back and tell us.
It may or may not help, but it won't cost you anything to try.
Download the free menu bar utility called Semulov:
It puts an icon in the menu bar.
Next time you have a CD that won't eject, go to the Semulov menu and see if it will "unmount" that way. I'm thinking that the unmount procedure will kick the disk out of the CD drive.
Again, this costs you nothing, and it's worth a try.
If it DOES work, please come back and tell us.
Thank you. I will keep that in mind. After I made this post I kept looking around and noticed that there is an "eject disc" option from the controls menu in iTunes. I selected that and the disc ejected. Not sure why the big blue "eject" button didn't work. But I will keep that little app in mind regardless.