You can copy and paste the app. In the installation folder you downloaded, Find the file with the .app extension (which is actually a folder) and press command-c. You should still be in finder at this point. press command-shift-a to go to the apps folder. Press command-v to paste it.
htH, teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Apr 27, 2014, at 10:25 PM, Robert C <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, > Regardless of how I do it, I end up at the installer window. There are 3 > buttons in the group. The app itself, the app folder and the uninstall > button. I drag the app to the folder and drop it...I think. This is where I > am stuck. > > Quote of the nanosecond . . . > Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and > stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. > --Christopher Robin to Pooh > Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn > E-mail- > [email protected] > > On 4/27/2014 8:31 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It all depends on the app you're installing. In the case of these kinds of >> apps that you drag or copy to the Applications folder, all that usually >> needs done is opening the app after the copy. So, once you've placed the >> app in your Applications folder, select it from within that folder and press >> cmd-o to open it. If anything needs installed elsewhere, the app will do it >> automatically for you. There are some situations where it may ask you for >> license info or some other things but in many cases, it just installs in the >> background. The app actually checks upon each startup whether it's the >> first time it's been opened and/or if certain things have been done, thus it >> won't need to run the installation part of things again. >> >> Make sure that you close the .dmg file and eject it so that you don't >> attempt to run the app from that disk image. Apps behave much better when >> they are running from the Applications folder. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Apr 27, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Robert C <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> After uninstalling the app, I am now trying to install it. I must be >>> missing a step tho. I open the installer, it brings up the window where I >>> drag the app to the app folder. This is where I cannot figure what the next >>> step is. I know I should get another dialog that has the install button on >>> it. What is that step? Thanks. >>> >>> Quote of the nanosecond . . . >>> "I don't feel good." >>> --Luther Burbank (1849-1926), last words >>> Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn >>> E-mail- >>> [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
