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    HELP! Im a big fat os x noob.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by steve_emb, May 31, 2007.

  1. steve_emb

    steve_emb Notebook Consultant

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    Right so my beautifull macbook arrived this morning and ive been taking time getting used it after switching from windows and hwat not.


    Anyway I wanted to download and installn msn messenger and when it had downloaded I clicked on it and it has installed but it has placed a messenger.dmg on my desktop along with a disk drive called microsoft messenger, where should I put them, I dont want them there! :eek:
     
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    rectian Newbie

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    click the disk drive microsoft messeger and drag the messenger icon into your "Application" folder in the hard disk. Thats all it is installed. Now you can eject the drive called microsoft messenger and also can throw the *.dmg to the trash!!! Its very simple
     
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  3. Wooky

    Wooky Notebook Evangelist

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    A dmg file is a Disk IMage file, similar to an ISO file: an image of a disk. Supposing MSN uses the most commom way of installing, there should be an MSN.app or similar that you just have to copy to your Applications folder. Perhaps the installation procedure is different - in that case there should be an installer just like in windows.
    After installing it, you can unmount the disk image (click the eject button next to it in a Finder window, or right click the desktop icon and select eject) and delete the dmg file if you want to.
     
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    steve_emb Notebook Consultant

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    Ahh thankyou, I must have been running it directly from the iso (or dmg) instead of installing it and running it from the applications folder. Thanks.
     
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    Rodster Merica

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    You can also drag it into the trash and it will turn into an eject button. :cool:
     
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  6. Wooky

    Wooky Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah, I usually avoid dragging things using the touchpad, kind of awkward :D so even when I have a mouse connected I tend to avoid dragging. In this particular case I think the metaphor is flawed since I want to eject and not delete the file... but you're right, that's another way to do it.
     
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    modal Notebook Guru

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    Yeah, that was one of my first mistakes with OSX as well--it took me a little bit to realize that the difference between installing an app and running it from an image file.

    On an only vaguely-related note, why are you using MSN messenger when you could be using Adium?
     
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  8. steve_emb

    steve_emb Notebook Consultant

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    Ive never heard of it. :) Il check it out though.
     
    steve_emb, May 31, 2007
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