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CD Drive Won't Open

 
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      22nd November 2010
Usually, when I have a CD loaded into the drive, it will eject in the normal manner (i.e. dragging its icon to Trash). However, when there's nothing in the drive, I see no way to open it. Supposedly F12 does this, but my F12 merely opens the Dashboard.

There's a workaround I installed based on a suggestion from one of the Mac help forums. It provides a little 'eject' icon in the title bar of the desktop. But now suddenly that icon has disappeared and I can't remember the procedure for installing it.

I have OS 10.4.11 on a G4 Power Mac.

Please help!

Peyton

P.S. If this helps diagnose anything. Just before this happened I clicked on the above-mentioned eject icon and nothing happened but a multicolored spinning 'Please wait' circle. So I re-booted. It was immediately after the re-boot that the icon stopped showing up.
 
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      24th November 2010
Hello,
Try this.
 
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      25th November 2010
How do you do that magic, Walrus666?
 
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