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New "eject" icon appearing in menu bar?
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From Apple Support Knowledgebase article HT2575
To show this menu bar item:
1. From the Finder's Go menu, choose Go to Folder.
2. Type or paste: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras
3. In the Menu Extras folder, double-click "Eject.menu".
You can get rid of it by holding down on the command or
key on the keyboard and dragging it off the menu bar.
To show this menu bar item:
1. From the Finder's Go menu, choose Go to Folder.
2. Type or paste: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras
3. In the Menu Extras folder, double-click "Eject.menu".
You can get rid of it by holding down on the command or
key on the keyboard and dragging it off the menu bar.
You can get rid of it by holding down on the command or
Is this something new or did I do a ninja keystroke that turned it on?
tMac85
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are you by chance using an older apple keyboard hooked up to your mac? the older keyboards didnt have eject buttons, so when you hook up older style keyboards the only way to eject is through the computer itself. i learned this with my mac mini. took me a while to figure out when i saw it too.
Hmmm. I actually have a closed MBP attached to an external monitor and a multimedia Microsoft keyboard (don't laugh, they can't make good OS' but their hardware is top rate!). Anyway, I didn't change or update anything and suddenly that icon appeared.
It isn't a bad thing... it's just a strange thing.
Yeah, but I didn't just add it! I've had it for two years! Suddenly that icon appeared and I didn't see any strange hardware or software updates.
Hmmm. Though I did update MS Office yesterday...
Did they sneak in a hardware update at the same time?! 😱