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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1173704"><p>@class77, no, you haven't screwed up your system. The dmg files are disk images, which mount as drives. You then install the software from the mounted drive to the system as described in earlier posts. What you have been doing next is to unmount the dmg file, which cleans up the desktop. The dmg file has remained on your hard drive, most likely in the Downloads folder. All that has happened is that you have a file you may or may not ever need taking up some HD space. If you want to recover that HD space, delete the dmg file. If you think you may need to reinstall and don't want to have to re-download, or if for some reason the download is no longer available, you can just leave it alone, or offload to a backup storage area if your main HD is getting full. The difference between just unmounting and unmounting and deleting the dmg is exactly that, and no more...in the latter you save some space on the HD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1173704"] @class77, no, you haven't screwed up your system. The dmg files are disk images, which mount as drives. You then install the software from the mounted drive to the system as described in earlier posts. What you have been doing next is to unmount the dmg file, which cleans up the desktop. The dmg file has remained on your hard drive, most likely in the Downloads folder. All that has happened is that you have a file you may or may not ever need taking up some HD space. If you want to recover that HD space, delete the dmg file. If you think you may need to reinstall and don't want to have to re-download, or if for some reason the download is no longer available, you can just leave it alone, or offload to a backup storage area if your main HD is getting full. The difference between just unmounting and unmounting and deleting the dmg is exactly that, and no more...in the latter you save some space on the HD. [/QUOTE]
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