MAC USERS help me out pls... how do i

[BoyzntheShire]

(and this may be the first of many such questions)

how do i make it safe to take my memory card reader out of the usb port? on pcs i click on the little icon and click 'make safe to remove hardware' or somesuch. but theres no icon so im lost. pls help
tia

[Heathcliffscathy]

drag it to your trash? it will eject it

[BoyzntheShire]

it wont delete the files on it? (hi soph, nappies here)

[BoyzntheShire]

and anyway, i dunno what to drag... theres no icon i dont think, just the little light on the reader is red meaning 'remove me and you die, loser '

[MrsBadger]

when you drag it to trash the trash icon will change to an 'eject' one ( |> only pointing upwards)

[RubberDuck]

Drag the icon to trash - not the files, you'll see the icon change to an eject symbol. Or right click (if you have a mighty mouse, shift click if you don't) - and select Eject.

[RubberDuck]

The icon will be on the desktop on the right hand side, somewhere underneath your Macintosh HD icon.

[MrsBadger]

when you put the card in, did a folder or something appear on your desktop?

Actually, when you open a Finder window it should have the removable devices down the left hand side with Eject buttons next to each. Just click the appropriate one and pull the card reader out.

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

You can drag it to the trash or open finder window and click the eject arrow next to the drive's
icon

[PigeonPie]

Boyz, do you live near an Apple Store? If so, they do tutorials there, some of which you pay for, but some you don't. Look on the Apple UK site for more info.

[BoyzntheShire]

oooo kaaaay
i have found icon and dragged it to the trash which did indeed turn into an eject thing. but the lights still red... hmmm... the icons gone tho... ah! have looked via the finder window and it says im using it, will try to find where/how and stop doing so.

and rubberduck, i think youve answered my next question which is ; how do you bloody right click on this thing??? driving me nuts.

pigeonpie, i may look into that, ta.

[RubberDuck]

Sorry it's not shift click, it's control click - just correct myself there...

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

The help is pretty exhaustive, too.

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

Make sure you have closed all the files on the drive.

[MrsBadger]

once you have dragged it to the trash just pull it out
if you leave it plugged in it re-detects it when you open a Finder window

[BoyzntheShire]

i think what i draggedthere wasnt it. the nikon software disc came out instead. cant find lexar reader with nikon CF card icon anywhere.

[MrsBadger]

er

is there a card in the reader?

if there's not then there's no 'disk' for the Mac to detect so nothign will show up and you can just unplug it

[BoyzntheShire]

closed all the files on the drive? eh?
when i click the red thing to close things, they shrink down and go into the bar thing at the bottom. but thats not closed is it?
bloody confusing.

[BoyzntheShire]

yup mrsB, theres a card in it and the tred light on it is on.

[BoyzntheShire]

[MrsBadger]

click and hold on the Lexar Reader icon in the dock at the bottom of the screen
menu should pop up
choose Quit

[BoyzntheShire]

it doesnt appear in the devices list in finder window

oh, and why doe the firefox thing never stay loaded when its exited? how can i get it to stay on the funny bar thing at the bottom? or must i switch to safari?

[BoyzntheShire]

is the dock the line of icons that move when you run the mouse over them, at the bottom of the desktop?

[BoyzntheShire]

theres no lexar thing there if it is

[BoyzntheShire]

neither does it come up if i type either lexar or nikon into the finder search window

im going mad arent i?

[Ecmo]

am confused myself now. If you've ejected it it won't show in the finder or the dock. If you want to see it again, unplug it and then plug it back in