Monday, October 21st, 2019 Author:You may think that Apple’s DVD Player app disappeared with macOS Mojave in 2018. It hasn’t and can be found in macOS Catalina, but Apple apparently wants you to think it has, even though the software has been upgraded to 64-bit.The easiest way is to use Spotlight. Click the little Spotlight icon in the upper right corner of your Mac’s screen.
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Search for “DVD Player, and the app’s icon will appear at the top of the Top Hits. Double click on the icon, and the app will launch. I used to have an i-Mac with a built in DVD player, and happily watched ordinary DVDs in the office whilst my wife watched bakery and house refurbishment programmes in the lounge. Of course, this did not play blu-ray DVDs. My Mac died, and I bought a new one, which did not have a DVD drive. I bought a blu-ray DVD player Pioneer BDR-XD05TS.
Wonderful, for a few months before I upgraded my new Mac to Catalina, and found I couldn’t play ant DVDs at all! Your tip above (use spotlight) has helped a lot, but I’m back to square one, that my lovely blu-ray burner will only play ordinary DVDs! So – you’ve been a great help, but only with partial success. I am angry with Apple, in that a giant move to 64 bit technology causes so much hassle that at least they should have warned us. I’d never have upgraded if I’d known. I have a couple questions for the pros here.1) I used to be able to drag folders to my hard drive icon and store them in the HD. What do I click on to allow me to do that in Catalina instead of cluttering my desktop with all the folders?2) Has anyone figured out how to transfer all of their itunes files and playlists easily?
I have 2 Macbook Pros (2015) One has Mojave and the other is newer with Catalina. I want to transfer a boatload of music files (300 albums) and playlists to the one with Catalina WITHOUT using Time Machine or cloning the Mojave HD. Apologies for the long question, but every forum has answers to this query in part only.I have upgraded my late 2103 iMac with Catalina and installed it on a brand new Samsung 860 EVO SSD.
(yep, took it apart and did the job!)I have an external bog standard DVD / CD writer / player attached through the USB3 port, which unto the upgrade worked fine.I have located the DVD player app as suggested by people on this forum (thank you by the way!)However, I cannot locate the external player anywhere on my Mac (Sidebar, preferences etc)When I insert a CD or DVD the player light flickers, whirrs and stuff as though it’s going to do something, then stops.I have trawled through loads of forums, how can I ‘see’ my external drive and use it? Do I need a software download or something?It’s driving me mad, why does Apple seem to make things so difficult?Thanks for any suggestions. Hi, thanks for your prompt response, yes the CD’s Drives etc are checked, I have placed the DVD player icon on my desktop along with VLC in case they ‘wake up’ the drive. The blurb on the DVD drive says compatible with MAC OS as well as Windows. Did work under Mojave.I appreciate CD’s DVDs are ‘old’ tech but it is convenient for some things.
The drive is a generic buy from Amazon from a company called PiAEK (Chinese) and I don’t know how to confirm or otherwise if it’s compatible? Model No is CB31005 is the only other info I have. Get notified of new posts!Email AddressSubscribe. Recent Posts.Macs last a long time. Don't plunk down your hard earned money on a new Mac when an upgraded Mac can run faster than a new Mac.
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The tray wouldn't open and the plugs were all oversized for their ports, a good half a centimeter of the plug was hanging out of the port and super wiggley. Keep in mind that these wires came with the device, and they dont even fit properly. And it was the same case for both the USB ports that went into my computer.
I'm not totally sure i didn't just purchase a plastic brick with a fun light. I talked to customer service, which was honestly an underwhelming and terribly unprofessional experience, but finally they said they'd give me my money back and I could keep the dvd drive. I haven't gotten my money back yet, but I only talked to them three days ago so we will see what's going to happen with that in the mean time i'm going to go throw this thing over a cliff or something.
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