If your Mac has an SD (Secure Digital) or SDXC (SD extended capacity) card slot, you can use a card to import images from a digital camera or to store information. Insert an SD card: With the card’s metal contacts facing down and pointing toward the computer, insert the card into the slot.

No! This will fall to the bottom of the drive and block it up. Please do not insert it to the drive, to use a mini-cd i guess you would have to put it into a windows computer copy the files to a USB and then place it onto your Mac. There is no way you can use one of these discs in a mac.

Import from a card reader or SD card

1. Insert the card into your computer’s SD card slot, or connect a card reader to your computer and insert the card into the card reader.
2. In Photos, choose File > Import, then select the photos or videos you want and click Review for Import.

Insert a CD or DVD

1. Turn the disc label so it faces up or toward you.
2. Insert the disc into the optical drive until you feel the drive catch and pull the disc in. You must insert the disc nearly all the way in before the drive pulls it in.

Use an External Optical Drive Once you’ve attached your external drive to your Mac, you can use it in exactly the same way as a built-in optical drive: simply insert the DVD or CD into the SuperDrive, and the relevant media-playing app should launch automatically.

You can play DVD on Mac mini by using Remote Disc feature that is designed to share a CD/DVD drive between Macs. To fix DVD won’t play on Mac without disc drive, Mac mini users need another Mac with optical drive or a Windows PC that has installed DVD sharing setup, and connect them into the same network.

Start by pressing the drive’s eject button, which pops out the tray (often called a drink holder in computer jokes). Drop the disc into the tray, label side up. Gently nudge the tray back into the computer. The tray slides back in the rest of the way on its own.

No, do not ever use mini CDs in a slot loading drive, also do not use CDs with paper stick on labels. Both will jam in the drive and potentially ruin it.

Mini DVDs are most often used for promotional materials and home video recording, but they are of course used for other purposes as well. Though some people may think that they require specific equipment to play, they can actually be used with pretty much any device or computer capable of playing standard DVDs.

Often you can still finalize discs from old machines on any newer model of the same brand (Panasonic, Pioneer, Phillips, Magnavox).

Many laptop DVD drives are capable of loading and playing the 3-inch mini-DVDs by simply loading in the drive like regular DVDs. This is especially true of any slot-based, vertically loading DVD players like the ones all Mac laptops have; mini-DVDs will get stuck in these drives and can damage the drive.

How to Copy Video From a Mini-DVD to a Computer

1. Open your DVD drive.
2. Insert the mini-DVD into the smaller circular area in the center of the drive’s tray.
3. Close the drive.
4. Right click “Start” and click “Explore.” Click on the DVD drive letter. Drag and drop the video file to any other location on your hard drive.

The best way to do it is through a Firewire connection. mini-DV players come with a Firewrite (IEEE 1394) port. Through it you can transfer high-quality video to your computer on one condition. Your computer, too, must have a Firewire port.

Double-click on a media player program icon if playing the DVD-R disc on your computer and go to “File” and “Open.” Browse for your DVD-R disc and click on it. Press “Play” to play the movie. If the disc does not play, remove it and clean it by rubbing a small drop of soap on it.

DVD-R is a write-once format, just like CD-R, and you can’t erase the data once it’s written. DVD-RW is rewritable, so you can use it somewhat like a 4.7GB floppy disc, for all intents and purposes.

Computers will not play DVDs for lots of reasons. When your disc is corrupted or inserted improperly, your DVD drive won’t read the disc at all. Similarly, when your disc drive is disabled or defective, you’ll experience an error like no disc found on Windows 10/8/7.