Hi Geoff, DMG viles are disk image files. As Sarah said, you copy the appropriate .app file out of the .dmg file and paste into your applications folder.
Cut is considered destructive and mac OS won't let you do it to files. This is one of the few irritating things about the mac operating system. In any event,you need to delete the original if you don't want two copies. Command delete will probably become available once you eject the disk image as Sarah Suggested. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf Check out my first ever podcast tutorial, Learn braille using the braille box. Visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.com and click podcasts to read more and subscribe. On 2010-08-14, at 5:55 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Greetings, > > Thanks to Sarah and Erik I'm more comfortable with the finder so I copied the > SKYPE disk image file from downloads to applications and can now open it from > there. I gather these dmg files are executable and there's no installation > process necessary after downloading? > > Why was "cut" dimmed? Since I copied it to applications do I now have two 45 > meg files? I see that command+delete under the file menu is also dimmed so > deleting from downloads does not appear to be an option. > > TIA for any info about these files and best regards. > Geoff > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
