does anyone know how to open the DVD drive manually. It won't open if I hold down the mouse button when I turn it on. I had problems trying to install XP in Boot Camp and had to turn off the machine. Now the windows disc is stuck inside that wants to install windows each time I turn it on. It is no good holding down the options key either.
View 1 RepliesI replaced a defective DVD drive with a new Pioneer super drive in a Mac Pro G5 which meant I had to manually pull out the tray and remove the bezel on the front of the tray so the tray will pass through the mirror door cavity.
After I pushed the tray back into the drive to install the drive in the G5 I somehow managed to jam something because the tray will not open at all now. The motor attempts to open the tray and pressing the little manual tray release (paper clip through the pin hole) doesn't work either.
This is my first macbook, and I felt like watching borat but when I put the dvd in, the little disk image goes on my desktop but I can't play it. When I open the disk icon it goes to folder called VIDEO_TS inside is a bunch of images and other stuff. Sounds nooby but how do I watch movies on this thing.EDIT: I had to go into VLC manually and go to open disk.. Why cant I just click on the DVD and click play?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I download a DMG via Safari, the usual steps once the download completes is "verifying disk image...mounting disk image...cleaning up" and then it should be complete in the downloads window. however, i've been having this issue where the download gets stuck at "cleaning up". to get it to get out of the download window, i have to quit out of safari after it asks me if i'm sure i want to quit since there is an active download in progress (even though it is technically done downloading).
the files are labeled with the .download extension so i have to mess with the file name and open the DMG manually. does anyone know about this issue and how i can fix it? it is a nuisance to me and i don't recall when it first started.
I currently work with an old G4 Power Mac (1.25 GHz, 2GB RAM) and have to mount a FW 800 volume (WD MyBook Studio Edition 1TB) to that computer so I can consolidate to it (Avid speak for copying some data). But it doesn't mount, and Disk Utility only shows it greyed out, and there is no option to mount it like in 10.3 and following. The strange thing is, there are already two WD MyBooks Studio Edition drives connected and fully mounted. But even if I disconnect all extra drives, the one WD MyBook is still greyed out, even after reboot, which helped sometimes. I also use this drive with a 10.4.11 PowerMac G5 and a 10.5.6 C2D MBP (Unibody). Can newer Mac OS versions leave some kind of mark, so that this older Mac OS won't allow it into its system?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was switching out a hard drive in an old 12" powerbook and in the process I killed the computer accidently. The problem is that I left a cd in the drive that I'd really like to get out. Is there a method for physically removing it with a paperclip or is there a button I could press within the drive?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just purchased an ICY DOCK for use with an Intel SSD. I already a have one of these, however the new one seems to have some new revisions. Basically this new one allows me to completely take off the cover. The old one slides forward and up, but the cover does not disconnect. The old one also, when closing, makes sure the SSD is seated correctly into the connector port on the ICY DOCK. The new one does not seem to have this "automatic" feature where when I close it.
View 3 Replies View Relatedon the Mac Pro there is no eject button. You have to use the eject key on the keyboard.
I'm fine with this. However, when there is 2 optical drives in the Mac Pro, how does the second drive open?
I've got a Mac Pro 2008, with 4 noisy hard drives in it.
I wonder if there is an easy way to manually spin down/up the unused harddrives when you feel for it? (That would be much easier that powering down the whole computer, and unplug the disks.
How do I manually eject a DVD. It may have been put in upside down.
Info:MacBookPro
I have a Mac Pro that's kernel panicking upon boot. I was going to try seeing if I could repair it before just reinstalling the OS, but I can't get the DVD drive to open. I have a Logitech Wave keyboard, but pressing the eject key combo isn't working (presumably since drivers for it aren't loaded).
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have never ever seen a picture of a Mac Pro with any of the two drive bays open, when/how do they open ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have just rebuilt a G4 MDD. Works great, except for one thing.I cannot get the Cd drive to open!!
Pressing the eject button on the kyb doesnt do it. The eject button on the actual drive is covered by the plastic tab of the mirror metal.
The new Itunes doesnt have an eject button that I can see, either.I dont see any "eject disk" button in any of the utilities.
Lion 10.7.4Â
Pressing the Eject key on the keyboard does not open the DVD tray. Usually the Eject symbol appears briefly on the screen and then the tray will extend. But, this is not working at all. I've reset the PRAM, but still the problem persists.Â
Going to About this Mac shows that the system "sees" the DVD drive, I just can't the the tray to extend. There is no DVD or CD in the drive at this time.Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have a app called disk inventory x. I never use this app and I would like to manually delete it since my app zapper expired. The only file I see is in my app folder. Where else do I need to look for other files?
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Is this possible?
Ive looked about on the google and all websites just seem to point towards left, right and bottom.
Originally had Airport Extreme wifi basestation. I am running on old iBook G4 with OS 10.3.9 and a newer MacBook Pro with OS 10.6.2. My girlfriend has a PC laptop. Before i got the Macbook pro, i had no security set on the base station because i needed OS 10.4, then my g/f moved in and we set up the airport extreme base station security up on her pc. Everything worked fine until i brought home the MacBook Pro. suddenly, My iBook would not get a signal at all, and i was having problems with the MacBook Pro. My girlfriend, however, could still get a signal, no problem. There was an airport update for mac, so i updated and then thats when i couldnt get a signal AT ALL. I couldnt figure out what the deal was and got fed up and went and bought a Netgear wifi router. I set it up on my g/f's PC again, since there was a set up wizard. I wanted to set it up on my MacBook Pro, but it was so complicated that I didn't even want to attempt it.
NOW, starting a couple of weeks ago, my browser started lagging and it was taking longer than normal to download/upload etc. I saw that once again, there was an update for airport. I held off updating for a while because i didnt want it to hose my whole Wifi deal again. But alas, i got sick of everything lagging, and bit the bullet hoping it would take care of the problem. So, i did the update, logged into Netgear's website, via my g/f's PC andran updates on the wifi router itself, and now she cant get a signal, my iBook G4 will not get a signal and gives me an error, and my MacBook Pro will get a signal and load web pages but it literally takes FOREVER. I logged into my yahoo email account and could never get it to load up my inbox.
I am not tech savy at all and do not know how to manually set up any of this stuff, but i am thinking that's the only thing that may solve it (other than hardwiring into the router). I don't want to hardwire as a permanent fix, because I use both of my computers for my home business and need the wifi, as does my girlfriend.
re-setup my dad's old (2006) D-Link Wireless Range Extender (was working fine with a Netgear Wireless G router; replaced that router with the same model, only newer). I think I've figured out how to log into it now (step one, right?), but I have to "manually configure my computer's IP address to a static address within the range of the extender" (like 192.168.0.XX) and then enter 192.168.0.30 into my browser. My question: how do I "manually configure my computer's IP address to a static address within the range of the extender"? I imagine that's in the Network settings pane.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis may sound like a silly question, but I would like to know how I can arrange files manually in Mac? For example, if I have a folder of 100 photos in running order and I want to move London3.jpg between London 1.jpg and London 2.jpg, how do I do that? I've tried all the different sorting/viewing options. This is a very basic feature in Windows but I can't seem to do it in Mac. I am using Snow Leopard v 10.6.3. am getting very frustrated trying the various options to no avail.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSetting up 10.6.8 Snow Leopard is not supported by Apple's iCloud. Setting up iCloud mail is at will.  iCloud: Supported system requirements:Summary--This article explains the minimum system requirements for using iCloud. To create a free iCloud account, you must have either an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 or a Mac with OS X Lion 10.7.2. To set up iCloud mail on Snow Leopard 10.6.8, you can do the following: Backup your email messages.
MobileMe, Mail: Copying MobileMe or IMAP email messages to your hard diskSummary--In Mail in Mac OS X, you can save copies of MobileMe mail messages to a local disk, for example if you want to create "backups" of MobileMe messages you have received. (This article also applies to any IMAP email account in which message caching is turned off.) Remove you previous MobileMe account. (after making sure anything important is backed up).  Open the Mail application (On the desktop. Looks like a Stamp w/Eagle.)Click on the name "Mail" from the top menu bar and go to Preference>Accounts> Click on your MobileMe account and then the minus ( ) sign to delete it.Â
Then click the plus ( ) sign: 1) In the Add Account pane, enter in the full iCloud email address and password. 2) DONOT click 'Create' or it will try to automatically set up the account. Hold down Option(on the keyboard) and the 'Create' button will switch to 'Continue'. Click Continue. 3) For Account Type, change the drop down menu to IMAP. 4) Change the Incoming Mail server to imap.mail.me.com. 5) Enter the full email address for User Name.  6) Hold down Option again and the 'Create' button will switch to 'Continue'. Click Continue 7) Check the box to use SSL and make sure Authentication is set to Password 8) Hold down Option again and the 'Create' button will switch to 'Continue'. Click Continue 9) Change the Outgoing Mail server to smtp.mail.me.com 10) Make sure the 'Use Authentication' box is checked.  11) Enter the full email address for User Name and then enter the password. 12) Hold down Option again and the 'Create' button will switch to 'Continue'. Click Continue 13) Check the box to use SSL and make sure Authentication is set to Password. 14) Click Create and then Click Create again on the final pane. 15) Done If there is every an issue. You can remove the account and set the iCloud Email address up in Mac mail once more using the steps above?
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iCloud, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Setup iCloud on 10.6.8
I purchased songs from iTunes Store. Files are on my computer, but did not automatically go to my Library. So tried to manually drag and drop files to my Library and they still won't go there. The songs will only play in my Purchase List and Recently Added. I turned off iTunes Match and Genius and still no luck.
Info:iTunes, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I keep getting pop ups saying I need to clean my mackbook from junk, I always securely empty my trash bin, & cant currently buy the software to scan and clean my macbook pro at the moment. Is there a manual way I can do this? If so how? I don't really have much on my computer. I only have about 18 gb of music, about 200 photos, and a few documents, So I dont understand what I actually have to clean?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I just got a new iMac and reinstalled my old mp3s cd/dvds from years gone by (a 1TB hard drive is considerably larger than my old system!).Â
I am now trying to add missing artwork and the like to the files in iTunes. But I can't seem to be able to get a cursor in the 'Year' column.Â
I'm having a problem getting my CD drive door to open (the CD drive was empty when the problem started). Have tried pushing and holding down keyboard eject key, holding down mouse key while restarting, and typing "eject cd" in open format. When I do these things, the drive repeatedly makes a sort of "grunt" (effort noise) but doesn't pop open, so this appears to be a mechanical problem. I removed the drive faceplate and was finally able to open the drive by pushing the manual eject button and pulling on the tray, though it requires some finagling and doesn't always work. When the tray does open this way, it does not automatically roll all the way out or back in, but has to be pulled/pushed, and once it shuts, it once more can't open without manual intervention. However, I discovered that as long as there's a CD in the tray, it opens and closes fine. While always keeping a CD in the drive is a temporary fix.
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G4 Mirrored Drive Doors
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
I can't open my CD/DVD Drive on my Mac, when I press the eject button ontging happend ...
Info:PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have a problem where .mac won't sync bookmarks but syncs everything else.
To explain my situation I had a problem with my MBP where because of some bad memory I started having a lot of problems with OS X even after fixing the memory. I decided to do a fresh install of OS X so used .mac to sync all my ical, mail, bookmarks, etc. to my Mac Pro. I did this and I checked and everything including bookmarks synced fine to my Mac Pro. After I reinstalled OS X Leopard on my MBP I then did the sync again to sync everything back.
Initially everything synced fine except for bookmarks and mail. This was last night and I tried it several times. I did another sync this morning, first from my Mac Pro to .mac and then .mac to the MBP and this time it synced all my email accounts but still has not synced by Safari bookmarks.
I did some reading online and did see mention of a problem with the Safari 3.1 and also OS X 10.5.2. I know my Mac Pro was a 10.5.2 but my MBP at that time was 10.5.1. I also used Safari 3.0 but believe my Mac Pro had already been upgraded to Safari 3.1.
Any idea how I can fix this? In a worse case is there a way I can manually copy my Safari bookmarks over?
I am trying to set a folder permission to include (apache) ... this can be seen in a screenshot on setting up webdav for dropbox: I cannot seem to get it... every time I hit the "+" button, there is no and I can't manually add it
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had to drop my iMac G5 in this morning to the apple store to get a stuck DVD out of the superdrive!!. My question is, how often to discs get stuck in the drive??? Is this a common problem??? Is there a risk of the disc getting stuck every time you put one in???? Why wouldn't apple put a pinhole to manually eject the disc or some other way of manually getting the disc out!???
View 24 Replies View RelatedI can put my iBook G4 to sleep manually, but it will not sleep on its own. Why is that? I'm running 10.4.8 and I have the power settings in preferences set for "Better Energy Savings".
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