Takuro Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I'm just wondering: does the eject button in the top of the menubar do anything? You know, the one that looks like this: I've tried dragging and dropping mounted volumes, clicking it, and just about everything else. It doesn't even seem to press down when I click. Is this due to a firmware thing or something? Does it do anything on real Macs? Does anybody else with a non-Apple computer have the same problem? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxuser33 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 (edited) Tinkertools by the hand? It works like using the eject-button on keybord. If you have a apple-keyboard. Edited February 3, 2007 by tuxuser33 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-293078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 (edited) i've only had the eject button pop up when i have more than one dvd/cd drive hooked up. altho it dosent work properly. it only ejects the master drive of the set (2 - 16x superdrives, connected via diasychained ide.) may have to tinker around with Eject.menu in : /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/ i have no clue how but im sure someone around here will. *edit* I did some researching here at work and it appears that Eject.menu is a package. you can open it up like a .kext and open up the MacOS Folder and do a get info on the Eject Exec look if its (universal, intel or ppc) looking at my g4 ppc running 10.4.9 it says ppc not universal. if anyone else can report what thiers says it may solve something. Edited February 4, 2007 by DiaboliK Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-293194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqua-mac Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Works fine on my Hackintosh, to get it to appear you must navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject as Diabolic says. Double click this and the eject will be for evermore in your menu bar. I only have one Superdrive so when you click it a little menu says open Superdrive. It is quite usefull on MDD's that have 2 superdrives as the keyboard eject button only operates the top drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-293201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Eject button F12 works on all keyboards... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-293234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 i think we all know the fact that f12 works as eject and the eject button on apple pro keyboards also work. we are trying to figure out the mystery of the Eject.menu button Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-293263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Works fine on my Hackintosh, to get it to appear you must navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject as Diabolic says. Double click this and the eject will be for evermore in your menu bar. I only have one Superdrive so when you click it a little menu says open Superdrive. It is quite usefull on MDD's that have 2 superdrives as the keyboard eject button only operates the top drive. I already have the icon in my menubar. The problem is, when I click it, nothing happens. I've seen screenshots of the dropdown list it's supposed to give. When I click, the button doesn't even "press down" (the bg usually turns blue and the icon itself turns white. With me, not even that happens.) Somebody claimed it doesn't work if you have multiple optical discs installed. I have a 16x DVD +/- RW drive and a normal DVD drive. I don't feel like unhooking either of them though. The F12 button works fine. This is more all out of sheer curiosity more than anything else... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-293274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 It works on my iHack, if I have one CD/DVD attached. With two it never works. Plus this tool called the ejector is sooooo much better Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-293319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
head Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 i even had problems with those buttons (and the hole eject-thing) on my old powerbook.... disk-images could not be ejected from the button in the finder, same with cd´s... a combo-update solved it, but later the problems came backk.. now on my mbp everything is working allright... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-296274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
palojoe Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 i have 10.4.9 jas,..still it doesnt work ,..let get it to work...where do we start?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41012-does-the-menubars-eject-button-do-anything/#findComment-330272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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