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Should be simple but seems out of my abilities. I'm a 20 yr vet of Windows from 3.1 to Vista and am stumped. I can not move a file to my Mac from a CD. I began by trying to move a voice file my meditation instructor had made for her new students and discovered that was not possible. It is not copy protected just a home made CD with her voice on it, though she does have some chimes behind her voice.... so I guess it could be called "music". When I inserted the CD it opened and played but there was no way to copy it.
I then tried to open and save to HD a word processing file (MS Word) and it promptly refused to open and would not eject. I had to shut down the iMac and start up again then use a paper clip to manually force the CDRom to eject the disc. There is Microsoft Word on this Mac so I thought the file would at least open.
I need all the help I can get at this point... please!