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So I stuck my SD card in my Superdrive slot.
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I am in the same situation with my iMac. This is a very easy mistake to make. I also agree that it is a flaw on the Mac. Once you know where the SD drive is located, there is no need to turn your screen to see where to stick it.
But the sick feeling that you get when the SD card does not stop half way like your used to.... is petrifying.
Please remember that this is a site to help, not insult.
I am in the same situation with my iMac. This is a very easy mistake to make. I also agree that it is a flaw on the Mac. Once you know where the SD drive is located, there is no need to turn your screen to see where to stick it.
But the sick feeling that you get when the SD card does not stop half way like your used to.... is petrifying.
Please remember that this is a site to help, not insult.
Here's a new twist to this problem...
A guy I know was trying to put his Sony Memory Stick Pro into the SD slot and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working... Then accidentally stuck it into the optical drive on the second try. Had to leave for work and forgot to tell anyone. His son comes home from school and has to burn a cd for class... Pops in a blank disk, burns his files and tries to eject it... ooopppps. It makes a grinding noise... Calls Dad.
Optical drive had to be taken out and taken apart.
A guy I know was trying to put his Sony Memory Stick Pro into the SD slot and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working... Then accidentally stuck it into the optical drive on the second try. Had to leave for work and forgot to tell anyone. His son comes home from school and has to burn a cd for class... Pops in a blank disk, burns his files and tries to eject it... ooopppps. It makes a grinding noise... Calls Dad.
Optical drive had to be taken out and taken apart.
Just done the same thing, put my memory card into the DVD drive (DUH)
The initial shock when you realise what you have done is hard to bear, still I did a google search and found you guys it's some comfort in not being the only one who as done this
I eventually fished mine out using a plastic serving tool we use for Pizza, I think the trick is to get something plastic that is just a bit smaller in thickness than the Drive opening
Tip the Mac on its side (with the power off) and gently wiggle the plastic tool about till it finds the card, I did this for a while and then it just popped out
The design is not to good with the Card slot just under the Drive, in my case I just reached around the side of my mac, found a slot and popped my card in,
So in future I will get up from my chair and look directly at the slots before I insert my SD card (we that's the theory any way)
The initial shock when you realise what you have done is hard to bear,
still I did a google search and found you guys it's some comfort in not being the only one who as done thisI eventually fished mine out using a plastic serving tool we use for Pizza, I think the trick is to get something plastic that is just a bit smaller in thickness than the Drive opening
Tip the Mac on its side (with the power off) and gently wiggle the plastic tool about till it finds the card, I did this for a while and then it just popped out
The design is not to good with the Card slot just under the Drive, in my case I just reached around the side of my mac, found a slot and popped my card in,
So in future I will get up from my chair and look directly at the slots before I insert my SD card (we that's the theory any way)
I Did this before, Luckly I Had a dvd in there and ejected it, the SD Card came right out. Ahahaahaha
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Cant that damage the Lazar?
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Cant that damage the Lazar?
How me and my girlfriend fixed
I'm not gonna tell now who was the guilty one, my girl or myself, the fact it's that we got the sd card completely trapped inside the superdrive. We try the cd in to method, and it wasn't work, nor the sd card out, nor the cd less than auto eject after some funny noises. So the fix came with help of some kind of bricolage.
We both, took a cardboard, or plasticboard, as slim to get into the superdrive, as long for not to get stucked too into it, and as strong to get the thing out. So we took an scissors and we made some like that:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3428582640161&set=a.1013491624395.2002489.1438195004&type=1
so just get the cardboard piece inside the supper drive move from up to down gently and you will fished the sd card in almost one or two tries. We really get it ten minutes before posting on here.
You all be luck!!
Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.
After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).
I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.
Thanks
I'm not gonna tell now who was the guilty one, my girl or myself, the fact it's that we got the sd card completely trapped inside the superdrive. We try the cd in to method, and it wasn't work, nor the sd card out, nor the cd less than auto eject after some funny noises. So the fix came with help of some kind of bricolage.
We both, took a cardboard, or plasticboard, as slim to get into the superdrive, as long for not to get stucked too into it, and as strong to get the thing out. So we took an scissors and we made some like that:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3428582640161&set=a.1013491624395.2002489.1438195004&type=1
so just get the cardboard piece inside the supper drive move from up to down gently and you will fished the sd card in almost one or two tries. We really get it ten minutes before posting on here.
You all be luck!!
Don't blame the user
Just for the record, I have a PhD, teach human-computer interaction at undergraduate and graduate level and have done so for over 20 years. I am also very satisfied with my love life. And yet even I (hard to believe, know) inserted an SD card into the CD slot on my iMac. It's official. This *is* a design flaw. And it is precisely the fact that I wasn't paying attention and was careless that makes it one. My two consolations are that I can use in my courses (1) my error to illustrate the misuse of affordances in device design, and (2) the intemperate flaming of some of the sorry jerks on this site as great examples of the dynamics of social networking. Thank you, Apple. Thank you, MacRumors.
BTW, I tried the credit card technique, but my card seems too far gone to be retrieved that way.
Just for the record, I have a PhD, teach human-computer interaction at undergraduate and graduate level and have done so for over 20 years. I am also very satisfied with my love life. And yet even I (hard to believe, know) inserted an SD card into the CD slot on my iMac. It's official. This *is* a design flaw. And it is precisely the fact that I wasn't paying attention and was careless that makes it one. My two consolations are that I can use in my courses (1) my error to illustrate the misuse of affordances in device design, and (2) the intemperate flaming of some of the sorry jerks on this site as great examples of the dynamics of social networking. Thank you, Apple. Thank you, MacRumors.
BTW, I tried the credit card technique, but my card seems too far gone to be retrieved that way.
This thread should be a sticky.
With a little bit of editing this thread could be a classic. It was great entertainment to read it from beginning to end! Only a fuzzy camera phone picture could top the text.
-=- Boris
With a little bit of editing this thread could be a classic. It was great entertainment to read it from beginning to end! Only a fuzzy camera phone picture could top the text.
-=- Boris
I could not help but laugh when i saw this thread title. I'm sure if my iMac had an SD card slot that close to the superdrive i would have put the card in there at least once. Should get one of those bicycle mirrors and mount it on the side of the machine so you can look at the mirror and see where you are putting the card.
and if its really stuck in there that bad a set of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PBQ9K8/ref=oh_o05_s01_i00_details
and a set of small torx drivers and you'll have it out pretty quickly.
and if its really stuck in there that bad a set of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PBQ9K8/ref=oh_o05_s01_i00_details
and a set of small torx drivers and you'll have it out pretty quickly.
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Thanks!
That worked a treat! Thanks I agree it's a stupid thing to do and maybe this is a joke meme forum but I did it & was freaked out & your trick saved me. So I bothered to register so I could post and say thanks. And you'll probably never even see this post, sadly, but hopefully some positive vibes will come your way. Kate
That worked a treat! Thanks
I agree it's a stupid thing to do and maybe this is a joke meme forum but I did it & was freaked out & your trick saved me. So I bothered to register so I could post and say thanks. And you'll probably never even see this post, sadly, but hopefully some positive vibes will come your way. KateAGAIN. I was not drunk
And for anyone that disagrees that there is a major design flaw with the 2 slots being so close together is just nieve.
You saidmin the post that you were very intoxicated....
USB HDMI tale
On one of the two PCs in the house, The USB and HDMI are close to each other, Here's what happened...
Once upon a time~~~
Me: *hmm, I wanna play music that are on my flash drive*
Me: ~gets flashdrive and tries to put it in the laptop~
Me: Why won't it go in?! is it broken?!
Me: ~looks at the ports~ Oops! the whole time i was sticking it onto the HDMI port, hehehe
Me: ~puts it in the right port~
~Computer reads the disk~
Me: ~Plays Rebecca Black~ Ahh, Finally...
The End~~~
On one of the two PCs in the house, The USB and HDMI are close to each other, Here's what happened...
Once upon a time~~~
Me: *hmm, I wanna play music that are on my flash drive*
Me: ~gets flashdrive and tries to put it in the laptop~
Me: Why won't it go in?! is it broken?!
Me: ~looks at the ports~ Oops! the whole time i was sticking it onto the HDMI port, hehehe
Me: ~puts it in the right port~
~Computer reads the disk~
Me: ~Plays Rebecca Black~ Ahh, Finally...
The End~~~
Of the 122 threads so far, this was the easiest and most useful solution to help me. The rest, well...some people have a lot of time on their hands.
Thanks "thesquish"!
This worked for me as well...
I ran into this same problem last night. I thought I was pretty clever coming up with the same idea of folding a piece of paper in half and such on my own, but it's a big world with other clever folks. Hats off to thesquish
I ran into this same problem last night. I thought I was pretty clever coming up with the same idea of folding a piece of paper in half and such on my own, but it's a big world with other clever folks. Hats off to thesquish
Luck man
What a lucky man, i must keep of the Soco whilst on the pcWell first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.
After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).
I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.
Thanks
