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Okay, this shouldn't take but a minute, but if I google I'll get a million hits and someone here will know the answer immediately, I'm sure. Soooo....
When I double-click a disk image I get that window that says "to install ______, just drag the icon onto your hard drive, then you can eject the disk image". Fine. No problem. But what if there is a read me text file and a user manual and a folder of "goodies"? Do they automatically install or shouldn't I have to drag them onto the hard drive as well? Why don't they tell me to create a _______ folder, then drag everything into it?
Thanks for dumbing it down for me.
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Usually the app creates its own folder, including the read me, etc.
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If this is a drag/drop application, then unless the manual and other crap are IN the folder you are dragging over, you won't get them.
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no, wurm is right. The only thing *required* for the application to run is that the application be dragged to your hard drive--but where does that leave you with the extras?
Some applications want to be put directly into the Applications folder. This, of course, causes problems when people like wurm and msyelf like to have the readme files, manuals, goodies folders, etc. right there with it.
I put some things in their own folders (I have a "Browsers" folder full of different web browsers), but most stuff is loose in the Applications folder--simply because I've had enough experience with apps that don't like being in subfolders, that assume they're directly in the Applications folder.
My solution is to have a folder somewhere called "Installable software". I drag the .dmg files into that. If I need a readme or a goodie, I know where to go get it.
In addition, should I need to reinstall everything, my backed-up Installable Software folder is a godsend.
When a product update comes out, I simply put the updated .dmg file in there, and I'm good to go.
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JoeBob is wrong. (sorry)
If the app says drag the file from a Disk Image (.dmg) to the Application folder, then that's all you need to do.
If you want to read the README or other files, you can, but they are not really neccessary for excution of the application itself.
If an app uses a .pkg type installer, then it is installing dependent files in either your ~/Library folder or elsewhere in the system. Installers that ask for your Admin password are probably installing files in the root /Library folder or subfolders of it or in other system areas that require admin user access.
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> JoeBob is wrong. (sorry)
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Not the first (or last) time! ;-)
Just checked my Apps folder, and some copy all the associated files, some just the app itself.
Don't know which were installed via .dmg, or a .pkg style..
I defer to the greater knowledge of the forum.
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JoeBob,
I'm sorry, but you must submit yourself for humiliation first thing tomorrow morning.
Please post nude photo, and the "PhotoShopping" will begin at noon Eastern.
Thank you.
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That would be pretty scary (the photo).
None of you participate in the photoshop contests on Fark, do you?
I will be in the stocks at daybreak, let the taunting begin.
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Fark that!
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(what... you expected something more crreative at midnight??)
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Hey, thanks for the input. I can't tell you how pleased I am to see that it wasn't a "simple answer" that I should have known.
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