The app has a 7 day trial, and costs $10 pic.twitter. Without a CD drive, this key does nothing now it shows all your mounted drives and volumes and helps you eject them. I’m pleased to announce Ejector, an app that gives new purpose to your ⏏️ key. There’s a 7-day free trial, after which you can pay $9.99 to continue using the app.
EXTERNAL DISC DRIVE FOR MACBOOK AIR EJECT MANUAL
This should trigger the manual eject mechanism. With Ejector, the otherwise useless eject key on you Mac’s keyboard has a completely repurposed functionality.Įjector is available for download here. 1) Press and hold the Eject key on your keyboard for 5-10 seconds, it looks like the above icon in this post.
EXTERNAL DISC DRIVE FOR MACBOOK AIR EJECT FULL
Here’s the full feature list for Ejector: Once you’ve pressed the eject key or the Touch Bar icon, you’ll be able to eject any drive from macOS, or force eject it if it’s being stubborn. LG Electronics 8X USB 2.0 Super Multi Ultra Slim Portable DVD+/-RW External Drive with M-DISC Support, Retail (Silver) GP60NS50 9.
The app also places a handy button in your MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar, making it easy to access volumes there as well. Modern Mac notebooks don’t feature an eject key, but Ejector takes that into account. This includes external drives, disk images, network drives, and partitions. With Ejector installed, simply press the eject key on your Mac’s keyboard to see a list of all connected volumes. To insert a disc (CD/DVD) you just have to put the disc in the small gap for the disc and push. A new app from developer Dave DeLong, however, aims to add some functionality to the key – and to your MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar.ĭeLong is out today with a new app called Ejector, which repurposes your Mac’s eject key into a hard drive utility. How do you put a CD in an Apple USB SuperDrive. As macOS has transitioned away from the SuperDrive and the use of physical media has declined, the eject key on Mac keyboards has become essentially useless.