Some newbie help needed with DMG files

[xxTHEOAKxx]

I recently downloaded a program off the internet and it came in the form of a dmg file....now i click on the file which gave me the funny rectangled shape temp folder which i click on to open which gave me a file that i dragged to my applications folder and it decompressed there to a larger file that when i click on to open does nothing open my toast program...

need help with how am i supposed to properky handle a dmg file??? should i open it then burn to a disk or what....help me please i need it.....

[trevor]

Hello xxTHEOAKxx,

Please slow down and explain very clearly what is wrong. Your sentence structure above really doesn't communicate much of anything, other than that you are having some unidentified problem with a .dmg file. Shorter, grammatically correct sentences will help us figure out how we can help you.

The normal way that .dmg files are handled for software is that you click on it and it opens a disk image. Then you drag the application from the disk image to your Applications folder, or wherever you prefer to install your apps.

Trevor

[xxTHEOAKxx]

ok after i drag program to my application folder it decompresses like its supposed to but when i click on the program my disk utility open up but nothings happens...

[hayne]

Quote: Originally Posted by xxTHEOAKxx ok after i drag program to my application folder it decompresses like its supposed to but when i click on the program my disk utility open up but nothings happens...

You need to use many more words to describe - step by step, in full, boring detail - what you are doing.
It isn't clear at all.
E.g. what do you mean by "it decompresses like its supposed to"?
There is no decompression normally when you drag a file from one place to another - the file just gets moved or copied.

If you can't describe it in words, maybe a series of pictures would help.
Take screen captures showing the various stages of what you are doing.
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Be sure to add some comments explaining what we should see in each of the images.

[acme.mail.order]

He's doing all right with the description, just a bit breathless.

Quote: now i click on the file which gave me the funny rectangled shape temp folder

ok, disk image is mounting properly and we see the mounted volume icon

Quote: which i click on to open which gave me a file that i dragged to my applications folder

And that's normal. So the downloaded disk image is working.

Quote: and it decompressed there to a larger file that when i click on to open does nothing open my toast program...

So perhaps we have an ISO wrapped in a disk image? If it opens Toast, see if Toast will burn it to a CD without too many questions.

Or a defective installer.

So, what we need: Click ONCE on the file you dragged to the Applications folder and choose File -> Get Info. What does it say?

Where did you get this disk image, and what is it supposed to be?