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Sheellah - 06 Sep 2004 23:19 GMT

I'm new to OS X. The problem is everytime I unstuff a .dmg file it makes a
volume with that file. It keeps making new hard drives, instead of files.
Anyone know what is going on and how to fix it?

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Paul Russell - 07 Sep 2004 00:12 GMT

> I'm new to OS X. The problem is everytime I unstuff a .dmg file it makes a
> volume with that file. It keeps making new hard drives, instead of files.
> Anyone know what is going on and how to fix it?

It's OK - this is what is supposed to happen. A .dmg file is a disk
image, so once it's been uncompressed it gets mounted as a virtual disk.
If you open the viartual disk there will usually be an installer inside
and perhaps a README file, in which case you just double-click the
installer. Other times it's just an application in which case you just
drag it to the Applications folder to install it. When you're done you
can just eject the virtual disk to remove it from the desktop.

Paul

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Gregory Weston - 07 Sep 2004 03:54 GMT

> > I'm new to OS X. The problem is everytime I unstuff a .dmg file it makes a
> > volume with that file. It keeps making new hard drives, instead of files.
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> drag it to the Applications folder to install it. When you're done you
> can just eject the virtual disk to remove it from the desktop.

And you can turn off the pref in StuffIt Expander that says to mount
disk images automatically once they're unstuffed.

G

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