How to open CD tray with a non-Mac keyboard

Hello.
Some years ago I bought a Logitech keyboard and set it so that a certain key would serve as Eject. For a good long time it worked but in the past few months Eject has been either refusing to open consistently or opening from another key. It finally stopped working altogether and hasn't responded to Pref Pane reassignment. OK so I may need a new (Mac!) keyboard but since I'm cash-strapped that may be a couple of months away and the paper clip solution is only designed for rare occasions. Is there something I can do to get the CD tray to open without a button?
graceo
iMac G4 (2002), eMac G4 (2004), iBook G3 (2003) dates approx.   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   Rural subscribers to Hughesnet (formerly Direcway) DSL

Depress your mouse button on startup.
Also, look at this link Ejecting media in Mac OS X: Removing 'stuck' CDs/DVDs http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041011075232575
Also, try this procedure as it's more permanent:
Enabling an Eject menu As a side note, you can enable another means of ejecting disks by opening the folder System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras and double-clicking the file "Eject.menu". An eject icon will appear in the menubar that can be used to close and open selected optical drives.
 Cheers, Tom

Similar Messages

  • How to open file created with TextEdit on Mac?

    I created a text file using TextEdit on my MacBook Air then saved it to iCloud. Now I would like to read the file from my iPhone. I've got apps that read text files, but they can't see this file. How can I find the file and open it?

    Hi,
    Do u mean to say that u need to open another PLD in when ur user form is open.?
    Please provide more information.
    Thanks,
    Vasu Natari.

  • How to create a volume shortcut for non-mac keyboards? Sound control? F7?

    Hello everybody,
    This has been bothering me for a while. I have a third party editing keyboard and I would like to be able to control the volume with three keys just as the apple keyboards do.
    I would like to make F6,F7 and F8: mute, vol -, and vol +.
    I have tried and tried and no luck. I tried using keyboard and mouse shortcuts section of system prefs but I do not know the "menu title" of the volume controls.
    If anybody has any ideas I would love help.
    Thanks so much,
    James

    Hi, James.
    Unfortunately, none of the F-keys can be set to the functions of the Volume keys using the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane.
    Mac OS X does not include native support for assigning a macro or script to either an Fkey or other keyboard shortcut. For that, you need a third-party tool, like iKey, Quickeys, or Spark, the latter suggested by DPSG-Scout.
    You'd also need a set of scripts to assign to the keys, e.g. scripts to increase, decrease, or mute the volume. Those are tricky to write since System Preferences does not expose much to AppleScript. One would need to use the "GUI Scripting (System Events)" technique to create a script to change the settings in the Sound preferences pane of System Preferences.
    Automator does offer a "Set Computer Volume" action, which allows you to adjust the various Volume settings (Output volume, Alert Volume, Input Volume) to a specific set of levels, including Mute for Output Volume. However, it won't handle the idea of pressing the same key multiple times to either increase or decrease the volume, ala the Volume Adjustment keys. In your case, it's most useful for Mute. Automator Workflows can be saved as applications, which I believe can then be assigned to Fkeys in iKey or QuickKeys.
    Someone may have written a more advanced Automator action for adjusting volume than that provided with Mac OS X. Search Apple's Automator Action Downloads. If you find one, instructions on adding actions to Automator can be found in Automator Help.
    You could search ScriptBuilders to see if someone has already written scripts for the functions you need, then use iKey or Quickeys to assign such to keyboard shortcuts.
    Finally, you could solve the problem another way: buy a set of external speakers that has its own separate volume and mute control. For example, my trusty old Monsoon MM1000s have their own volume control with a mute button.
    Good luck!
    Dr. Smoke
    Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

  • How to share a project with a non-Adobe user and present it to prospect customers?

    I Have to share my project with a person who will present it to prospect customers. I cannot ask this person to open an Adobe account. Is there a way for him to access my DPS folio and show it? Or can I export it in a way that allows to appreciate the interaction features built inside?
    Thanks!

    OK, got it. Thank you!
    2015-01-17 14:46 GMT+01:00 Bob Levine <[email protected]>:
        How to share a project with a non-Adobe user and present it to
    prospect customers?  created by Bob Levine
    <https://forums.adobe.com/people/BobLevine> in Digital Publishing Suite
    - View the full discussion
    <https://forums.adobe.com/message/7105349#7105349>

  • How to open labview program with Quit Labview function inside?

    Hi Any idea how to open labview program with  Quit Labview function inside?
    I forgot to add and set the condition of the type for this program.
    If the program is an application, it would close straight away.
    If it is still labview work, it will go straight to editing program without closing.
    So I need to recover, open it and make some changes.
    Clement
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    Put the VI in a project and open it from there, then it shouldn't autorun. You can use App.kind property of application to decide whether to close or not.
    /Y
    LabVIEW 8.2 - 2014
    "Only dead fish swim downstream" - "My life for Kudos!" - "Dumb people repeat old mistakes - smart ones create new ones."
    G# - Free award winning reference based OOP for LV

  • How to open a file with the extension x3f (sigma)

    how to open a file with the extension x3f (sigma)?

    RAW data from the following Sigma cameras is currently supported:
    DP1
    DP1s
    DP2
    SD9
    SD10
    SD14
    If your camera is among these, then simply import the photo as usual. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/importing-photos-lightroom-basic-workflow.html

  • How to Open multiple form with only one screen painter file

    Hi all ,
    I want to reopen the form without closing the active form ,i want to use same srf file ..
    I have already try it but form already exist error occur .
    pl help me , how to do it ?
    how to open multiple form with same srf file without closing active forms .
    thanks in advance,
    msw

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" ?>
    <Application>
      <forms>
        <action type="add">
          <form appformnumber="-1" FormType="-1" type="0" BorderStyle="0" uid="BOE" title="Bill of Entry" visible="1" default_button="1" pane="0" color="0" left="365" top="62" width="801" height="410" client_width="785" client_height="372" AutoManaged="1" SupportedModes="15" ObjectType="">
            <datasources>
              <dbdatasources>
                <action type="add">            
                </action>
              </dbdatasources>
              <userdatasources>
                <action type="add"/>
              </userdatasources>
            </datasources>
            <Menus>
              <action type="enable">
                <Menu uid="1282"/>
              </action>
              <action type="disable">
                <Menu uid="5890"/>
              </action>
            </Menus>
            <items>
            </items>
            <ChooseFromListCollection>
              <action type="add">
                <ChooseFromList UniqueID="-1" ObjectType="-1" MultiSelection="0" IsSystem="1"/>          
              </action>
            </ChooseFromListCollection>
            <DataBrowser/>
            <Settings Enabled="0" MatrixUID="" EnableRowFormat="1"/>
          </form>
          <form appformnumber="-1" FormType="-1" type="0" BorderStyle="0" uid="BOE1" title="Bill of Entry" visible="1" default_button="1" pane="0" color="0" left="365" top="62" width="801" height="410" client_width="785" client_height="372" AutoManaged="1" SupportedModes="15" ObjectType="">
            <datasources>
              <dbdatasources>
                <action type="add">
                </action>
              </dbdatasources>
              <userdatasources>
                <action type="add"/>
              </userdatasources>
            </datasources>
            <Menus>
              <action type="enable">
                <Menu uid="1282"/>
              </action>
              <action type="disable">
                <Menu uid="5890"/>
              </action>
            </Menus>
            <items>
            </items>
            <ChooseFromListCollection>
              <action type="add">
                <ChooseFromList UniqueID="-1" ObjectType="-1" MultiSelection="0" IsSystem="1"/>
              </action>
            </ChooseFromListCollection>
            <DataBrowser/>
            <Settings Enabled="0" MatrixUID="" EnableRowFormat="1"/>
          </form>
        </action>
      </forms>
    </Application>

  • How to open iCloud documents with ios8

    hi,
    i recently updated my iPad to ios8. and when it asked me to install iCloud drive i said yes.
    Now when i open pages on my iPad, there are no documents.
    when i go to iCloud.com on my mac i can see those documents, so they still exist.
    how can i open my 'iCloud'  documents on pages on my iPad?
    most forums say i need to install the beta version of os yosemite, whom installation is not working those days.
    the only thing i can do was to open a document on iCloud.com on my mac and send it to me via email. from my iPad i could read that email and open the document in pages. But this work only with small documents, a document bigger than 20 Mo, cannot be sent via email ( i'm using gmail)
    please help me, i really need those documents, i'm working with them.
    thank you

    beckstarr wrote:
    Does anyone know how to open pages document with windows vista? i saved it onto a usb stick but when i tried to open it on the computers in my university which support windows vista, it didnt reconise the file and opened with a page of question marks!!!! Im panicking now!!!!!
    You cannot open it on Windows Vista. The only application in the world that opens a Pages document is Pages, and it is Mac OS X only.
    Your options:
    1. Find a Mac with Pages installed, and save the document as doc or pdf, which you can open on Vista.
    or, if that is impossible,
    2. Open the files in a texteditor like Notepad.exe on Windows and try to piece text fragments together to get at least part of your original text back. The images should also be available somewhere, even though all formatting is gone.

  • How to open pages documents with windows vista

    Does anyone know how to open pages document with windows vista? i saved it onto a usb stick but when i tried to open it on the computers in my university which support windows vista, it didnt reconise the file and opened with a page of question marks!!!! Im panicking now!!!!!
    Id appreciate any help!!! thanks!!!!!

    beckstarr wrote:
    Does anyone know how to open pages document with windows vista? i saved it onto a usb stick but when i tried to open it on the computers in my university which support windows vista, it didnt reconise the file and opened with a page of question marks!!!! Im panicking now!!!!!
    You cannot open it on Windows Vista. The only application in the world that opens a Pages document is Pages, and it is Mac OS X only.
    Your options:
    1. Find a Mac with Pages installed, and save the document as doc or pdf, which you can open on Vista.
    or, if that is impossible,
    2. Open the files in a texteditor like Notepad.exe on Windows and try to piece text fragments together to get at least part of your original text back. The images should also be available somewhere, even though all formatting is gone.

  • How to open the choose application dialog on Mac?

    Hi all,
    I want to know how can we open the "choose application" dialog from InDesign. I want to give this functionality through right click context menu.
    At present CS4 has this feature - steps are as follows:
    1.Create a document.
    2.Place an item on the document.
    3.Now select the placed item and right click on it.
    4.Go to "Edit With->Other..." option.
    5.Choose application dialog opens up and user can select the application in which he/she wants to open the selected item.
    I want the same behavior but not able to understand how to open the choose application dialog on Mac. I have already achieved this on windows.
    I think that there might be some system API's for Mac to get this working.
    Please let me know about this, any help will be appreciable.

    Is this not sufficient? Looks like  you get some defaults then an "other" at the bottom as well. Control click or right click, when using the white arrow on the image.

  • How to run JavaFX jar with JRE7 on MAC OS Lion 10.7.5 ?

    I have created a bundled JavaFX application jar with ANT on Windows 8 O.S. , 64 bit machine. I have JavaFx2.0 and Java 1.7.0_09 installed on my Window O.S.
    <target name="CreatingJars" depends="Compiling" description="generate the distribution" >
                        <taskdef resource="com/sun/javafx/tools/ant/antlib.xml"     
                                 uri="javafx:com.sun.javafx.tools.ant" classpath="${env.JAVA_HOME}/lib/ant-javafx.jar"/>
                              <mkdir dir="${WorkingFolder}/temp/libs"/>
                             <copy todir="${WorkingFolder}/temp/libs">
                             <fileset file="${WorkingFolder}/CustomJars/ProjectLib.jar">
                             </fileset>
                             </copy>
                             <copy todir="${WorkingFolder}/temp/libs">
                             <fileset dir="${WorkingFolder}/libs">
                             </fileset>
                        </copy>
                        <fx:jar destfile="${WorkingFolder}/${app.name}.jar">
                        <fx:application mainClass="${main.class}"/>
                        <fx:resources>
                             <fx:fileset dir="${WorkingFolder}/temp/"/>
                        </fx:resources>
                        <fileset dir="${WorkingFolder}/build"/>
                        <fileset dir="${WorkingFolder}/resources"/>
                        </fx:jar>
         </target> When I am trying to run that JavaFX application jar on MAC OS Lion 10.7.5 using
    java -jar application.jar
    It always shows a dialog "The application require a newer version of Java Run-time" with download link. Even I have downloaded and successfully installed it on my MAC machine but it still shows me the same window.
    java -version is always point to 1.6.
    Then I searched for Java Preferences to point the current JRE 1.7 but I could find Java Preferences at Applications -> Utilities -> Java -> Java Preferences.
    I would like to know -- how to run JavaFX jar with JRE7 on MAC OS Lion 10.7.5? Is their any other way to run the JavaFX application JAR with JRE7?

    Do I need to download the whole JAVA 1.7 on MAC to run the JAR? No
    Can not I run the Jar file with Jre7?Yes, you can.
    This may be because I have downloaded the JRE 1.7Yep, that's correct, the java_home command only works for jdk's - sorry for the confusion.
    For jre7+ versions, only a single Oracle jre version is allowed to be installed on the machine at a time - making a tool like java_home redundant for jre checking.
    Weirdly, jre7u10 does not supplant the Apple Java on the command line path by default. If you just type java -v, then the Apple java version will displayed if you have an old Java 6 from Apple and a new Oracle jre7+.
    The Oracle jre is always located under (also somewhat strangely):
    /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/javaTo test jar launching, I used the willow JavaFX browser pre-release jar available here:
    http://code.google.com/p/willow-browser/downloads/detail?name=Willow-0.1-prerelease.jar
    Then I launched the jar from the command line using:
    /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java -jar Willow-0.1-prerelease.jar The JavaFX jar ran fine on jre7 with the above machine.
    The test machine was running Mac OS X 8 with Oracle jre7u10 installed as well as the Apple Java 6 runtime, but no Oracle jdk7+ installed.

  • Unable to open PDF files with Adobe Reader, Mac trying to open files with Quicktime instead, but not succeeding. HELP!

    Unable to open PDF files with Adobe Reader, Mac trying to open files with QuickTime instead, but not succeeding. HELP!

    Hi BDAqua,
    Thanks for the info, I dragged a PDF to desktop ctrl-, get info. change all to open with adobe.
    Problem solved, many thanks for a quick response.
    Barry69

  • Hi, i cannot publish my iWeb site with  a non mac domaine name...can anyone help please?

    hi, i cannot publish my iWeb site with  a non mac domaine name...can anyone help please?

    Hi, I have a site developed by myself usinf iWeb and as iWeb are no longer hosting teh sites in 2012 i have found another domaine. It is with Go Daddy and the domaine / name is live. I have tried to publish site using fttp but keeps coming up wih a common error message saying the info i have input is incorrect. I have tread this may be an issue if host is a windows based host???
    appreciete your help

  • I can't open NEF files with PS Elements9 (Mac) and have just performed all avail. updates

    I can't open NEF files with PS Elements9 (Mac) and have just performed all avail. updates.  What to do?

    Many thanks!!!  This works and is probably the best fix for now.  Thank you!!!
    Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:58:01 -0800
    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: I can't open NEF files with PS Elements9 (Mac) and have just performed all avail. updates
        Re: I can't open NEF files with PS Elements9 (Mac) and have just performed all avail. updates
        created by 99jon in Photoshop Elements - View the full discussion
    For the D600 NEF's you have two alternatives: (1) Upgrade to PSE 11. (2) Download and install the free Adobe DNG converter to convert your raw files to the Adobe universal Raw format and the files will open in all versions of PSE (keep your originals as backups and for use in the camera manufactures software)  Windows download click here DNG Converter 7.3  Mac download click here DNG Converter 7.3  You can convert a whole folder of raw images in one click. See this quick video tutorial: You Tube click here for DNG Converter tutorial
         Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed a screen image in your message please visit the thread in the forum to embed the image at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5034913#5034913
         Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5034913#5034913
         To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5034913#5034913. In the Actions box on the right, click the Stop Email Notifications link.
         Start a new discussion in Photoshop Elements by email or at Adobe Community
      For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to http://forums.adobe.com/message/2936746#2936746.

  • Can a Apple Studio Display be used with a none Mac PC under Windows

    Hello, can a 21 Inch Apple Mac Studio Display Monitor (Graphite) be used with a none Mac PC under Windows. Thanks Peter

    what's a "none" Mac PC?
    It can be done, but you'll need to purchase an ADC-DVI adapter in order to connect to the DVI port on the PCs video card.

Maybe you are looking for