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Re: Ejecting the tray on CD/DVD Drive
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Re: Ejecting the tray on CD/DVD Drive


  • Subject: Re: Ejecting the tray on CD/DVD Drive
  • From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:30:08 +1100

There's a bunch of menu items that you can activate. There's one for the CD tray

( from <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75466> )

that allows you to open or close the optical drive tray, which may be useful if you use a third-party keyboard and the F12 key does not open the tray. To show this menu bar item, do the following:

      1. Choose "Go to Folder" from the Finder's Go menu.
      2. Type or paste: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras
      3. In the Menu Extras folder, double-click "Eject.menu".


On 02/11/2006, at 1:44 AM, Steven Valenti wrote:

do shell script ("drutil tray open")

or do it from another machine using it's ip address, username and password will be needed...

tell application "Finder" of machine "eppc://192.168.30.190"
	using terms from application "Finder"
		do shell script ("drutil tray open")
	end using terms from
end tell

Hi all,

Our Server Mac has a mirror door (no button) and the keyboard is the old
G3 green one. iTunes isn't installed so I can't think of a way to eject
the tray to put a disc in for loading.


I had a look a the Finder dictionary but the Eject command seems specific
for pointing it at a disc to eject, not just eject the tray (like what
iTunes does).


Any suggestions on a short script app that can be written to eject the
tray? Shell script?

Cheers,

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