Two Stuck CD's in my Imac!

Can someone please help me with an idea of how to get the CD's out of my computer? My last option will be the apple store and if I cant get it out can someone tell me how much it would be for them to get it out or would I have to get a whole new computer?

You might want to try this: shut it down, pick it up and gently turn it on its side (CD side down) and shake very gently. Although, having two in there makes it a difficult job even worse. If you can't get it out, make an appointment at your nearest Genius Bar; there shouldn't be much of a charge - unless having two CDs in there has damaged the drive.

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HT204053 can you have two separate iCloud accounts on one iMac device?

can you have two separate iCloud accounts on one iMac device?

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If you want to avoid any problems you can easily create another local user on the Mac with your name, under System Preferences, System, Users & Groups. After you create the user, logoff. The Mac will ask if you want to disable autologin (since there's more than one user that can log in now), answer yes and you will be presented with a logon screen. Click on your account name, insert the password and configure iCloud to sync with your phone.

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Yesterday I installed "Mavericks" on my two identical machines (office and home, iMac i5 27'' late 2009) and now the cursor freezes for a few seconds after quitting an application on one machine and the the track pad stucks with safari - unsatisfying!

Even the back and forward buttons do not work than. Allover the complete installation process went different on both machines. One started the installation twice immediately after completion. I dont know what's wrong, I never have had such a trouble with Mac OS. I can't help myselfe an I am highly disappointed about Apple!
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After a few Google searches and a few downcasted days, I had to realize that I have to apologize to Apple, it was seemingly not alone their fault.
All trouble makers to Mavericks are accumulated in my environment:
External WD hard drives get in conflict with the nem Mavericks OS X, as well as drivers software from Logitech (LCC), which all is in use with my system.
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Have fun with Mavericks, a just started to love it....
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Projector stuck on first frame on iMac

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Thanks for the quick response and sorry for taking so long to answer.
In the end, after lots of testing, I installed Director on the specific computer. Surprisingly the movie didn't progress on frames even in the author mode. At that point I decided to reboot the iMac, and that fixed the problem
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Setup Assistant is stuck in migrating from an iMac to an iMac

Hi all.
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Started at 9 PM Friday last night.
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This morning, at 7 AM, it said "About 8 minutes remaining".
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ITunes - Two Libraries by Mistake on same iMac, How to Amalgamate and Deal with Duplicates?

I'm using iTunes 9.2.1 on a PPC iMac G5 running OS X 10.4.11.
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Yup.. If you use the View Options you can sort through the master list in iTunes by bitrate..
http://imageupper.com/i/?S0300010100011D1344782818223713
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http://imageupper.com/i/?S0500010010011A1344783379227569
http://imageupper.com/i/?S0500010010021A1344783379227569
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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Stuck transferring files from old iMac to new

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Would a church get a special discount when buying from Apple?
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<<Would a church get a special discount when buying from Apple?
Did I hear somewhere that the new iMacs support an external monitor (a different output than the main monitor)?>>
I know Apple offers education and government discounts... I'm not aware of discounts for church organizations.
Yes, the iMac CD offers support for dual monitors, mirrored and extended.

Two Apple ID's on one iMAC?

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So that i wonder is if I can download or buy an earlier operative system, ex. Panther 10.3, and still have my Tiger operative system in the computer.
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And then I read on the box,
which the videocamera were delivered in, and it says
that I need to have an earlier operative system than
Mac OS X Tiger, 10.4.3, that I have.
Max, it's unlikely the camera requires Panther. The box was probably printed before Tiger was available. If the camera ran in Panther, mostly likely it will run in Tiger too. That's how these things usually work.
Before going to all the trouble to locate and install Panther, I suggest you try to get your camera to work in Tiger. iMovie Help has some tips about troubleshooting FireWire, as well as Apple's online information for iMovie. Both are available in iMovie's Help menu.
Karl

TS4062 if i got stuck syncing updates from my imac to my iphone, and now it says i must restore the i phone, can i first retrieve pictures?

i really was doing everything right, so i thought :-) I connected my iphone 4s to my imac, as usual , to sink it......then a notice pops up on my imac that there are updates for my iphone....i press o.k. it says it will take 45 min or so so i minimize it and continue working in my gmail......then in a while another notice pops up telling me it is becoming available to the iphone....i minimize it again ( here i think was my mistake) cause then all of a sudden i see a notice on my imac that they see my iphone is in recovery mode and i must check Restore....now i know from years ago checking restore erases everything from my iphone.....now the big Q
is there a way i can retrieve voicememos, hourlong lectures and pics from my iphone before pressing the restore box on my imack??????????
please help me....i have no access now to my phone....just has that itunes emblem with a cable directed to it.

Once the Device is asking to be Restored with iTunes... it is too late to save anything...
To minimise loss... Connect to iTunes on the computer you Usually Sync with and Restore from the most recent Backup...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

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