[mac4theblind] Re: imported a CD and it's now on my desktop, how do I fix it?

  • From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 19:42:17 -0400

eject pops the cd out.

On May 15, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

OK.

That's fine.  First of all, you're not dumb and neither is your assumption. 
Let's get that cleared up front.  Everyone has to start somewhere.

Basically, when we talk about things being mounted or unmounted, all we 
basically are saying is it binds itself somewhere.  So In other words, when we 
say that the CD gets mounted to your desktop, all we simply mean is, that CD 
will appear on your desktop as a volume.  If you used Windows before using the 
mac, think of a volume as nothing more than a drive.  On windows you had drive 
letters, like say, C colon, where on the mac, they are called volumes, hince:  
Macintosh HD, Volume.

So, basically, to mount something is just saying you're taking the media in/on 
that drive, and you're mounting it, or in other words, you're placing it to a 
specific destination.  In this particular case, your desktop.

Say you had a USB flash drive.  If you put that in one of your USB ports, in 
then would get mounted on your desktop for easy access.  Now, if you look at 
the desktop, and you was to vo+left and right arrow around, you'd notice you'd 
have your macintosh HD volume, but then in addition, you'd see your flash drive 
you just plugged in.  Now, you either could unmount it with command+E was you 
were sitting on it.  That would eject the drive.  Being we're not dealing with 
a CD, saying we're ejecting it, quote unquote kind of is a bit confusing, I 
know, but escentially, either way, by ejecting, all you're doing is unmounting 
it and taking it off your desktop and preparing it to be removed.

I hope that makes at least a little bit of sense, but if it doesn't, don't 
worry.  don't be bashful in letting me know.  Perhaps I can find another way to 
better explain it.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:17 PM
Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: imported a CD and it's now on my desktop, how do I 
fix it?


I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean by mounts, I just assumed, and I know 
what they say about assuming:) that it meant putting it on the desktop.

I just wasn't aware that it did that since I've never used the disc drive on my 
Mac and I've had it since last June.  I know, kind of dumb, but I was under the 
impression that anything you played, disc, or anything else, automatically went 
to I tunes so I didn't want anything going to I tunes that came from a disc.

Now I know that it asks you about importing a disc, so that's cool.  also, I 
don't have that many discs left.

thanks again for trying to learn how I learn,  That means a lot to me.

Jenny
On May 15, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

> Yeah, any time you put a CD in your drive, audio, data, DVD, or what ever it 
> may be, it's going to mount to the desktop.  That's one of the easiest ways 
> then to get to the disc and browse the content of it.
> 
> Granted, you can tell the Finder not to mount stuff like that to the desktop, 
> but I'd honestly not advise it.  Had you simply wanted to play the disc and 
> not actually import it, you would a told it no, not to import, then in 
> ITunes, under your sources list, make sure the disc was selected, which it 
> already should a been at that point, then go over to the track list table, 
> select the first track on the disc, then hit return to start playing it from 
> that point.
> 
> We need to clear up a few things.  I don't want you being further confused. 
> When us list members as myself say something mounts or un! mounts from the 
> desktop, tell us in your own words what you think we mean by that?  That's 
> not questioning your intelligence, please please know that, it's just I wanna 
> see your logic, so that if you don't follow, I can better learn your style of 
> learning, so that in the future I'll know better how you think, and how best 
> to help you out.
> 
> Chris.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:45 PM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: imported a CD and it's now on my desktop, how do 
> I fix it?
> 
> 
> Nope that's not what I did at all.
> 
> I just put the CD into the Mac, hoping it would play it, it asked me if I 
> wanted to import it into I tunes, I went to the yes box, clicked it, and 
> there you go.
> 
> I don't see it anymore on the desktop, so I guess when I took it out of the 
> Mac, it disappeared from the desktop.
> 
> thanks for all your help.
> 
> Jenny
> On May 15, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> 
>> No, if it's not in the mac then you do literally have a copy of it on the 
>> desktop as you initially stated.
>> Wow!  That's bizarre!  Again, I need to know more what you did and how you 
>> went about importing the disc, as I have a very strong suspicion you just 
>> copied the disc with command+C then pasted it where ever.
>> 
>> That definitely won't work for importing discs, if that's what you did.
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:25 AM
>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: imported a CD and it's now on my desktop, how do 
>> I fix it?
>> 
>> 
>> I do that even though the CD is ejected and no longer in the Mac?
>> 
>> Jenny
>> On May 15, 2012, at 9:46 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
>> 
>>> when you are sitting on it on the desktop, press command-e to eject it.
>>> 
>>> On May 15, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Jenny Keller wrote:
>>> 
>>> I imported a CD and it's now on my desktop.  I only want it in I tunes, so 
>>> what do I do?
>>> 
>>> It's probably a simple answer, but I want to make sure I don't make a 
>>> mistake.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
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