Oh, that helps a lot! Thanks for the tip. Best, Donna On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:12 PM, James & Nash wrote:
> > Hi Donna, > > You can think of a disc image as a kind of external HD/.zip file. > Inside the > .dmg file is the application with a .app extention. This is the file > that > you need to coppy to your Applications folder. You can then return > to the > dmg which will have appeared on your desktop and eject it. > > FYI - if you download an application and are not sure if it will > work with > Voice Over, you can open the .dmg with Command + O and open the > application > inside the dmg file to see if it is accessible without copying it to > the > Applications folder. This way, if it is not, you can simply eject > the dmg > from the desktop and delete it from your downloads folder if it is > there > without having installed the application to the Mac. Remember that > applications are only installed to the Mac when they are copied to the > Applications folder. > > Hope this helps > > Take care > > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna Goodin" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 7:39 PM > Subject: Re: working with the downloads folder? > > >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> At the time that I wrote, I wasn't able to do anything with the file. >> I did finally get it copied to the applications folder, but it shows >> up as a disk image, and when I try to open it, I'm getting an error >> message about opening a file from a disk image. Do I need to extract >> it somehow? If so, what do I need to do? >> >> Thanks for the help. >> Best, >> Donna >> On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Mark Baxter wrote: >> >>> >>> Donna: >>> You can't delete the downloads folder, as it is a system standard. >>> Anything that's put there==by Mail or Safari or anything else that >>> downloads stuff from the net--follows the same behavioral laws as >>> does >>> any other file or folder on your system. What do you mean by "work >>> with it?" >>> >>> >>> Mark BurningHawk Baxter >>> >>> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >>> MSN: [email protected] >>> My home page: >>> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >>> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
