What is this in Disk Utility

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I opened Disk Utlilty and found this Flash Player, Can anyone tell me what is this doing on list ? Is that part of Partition ??
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It is a mounted dmg (disk image). You can eject it, or unmount it.
 
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To add to Bob's post, when you install Flash, it comes on a .dmg file, which is a disk image. It gets mounted as a drive when you click on it, and the installer is then on the mounted drive. Assuming you've completed the installation, you can unmount the drive by either using Disk Utility, or by dragging the icon for it to the trashcan. Then once it's unmounted, you can delete the .dmg file that was downloaded.
 
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Also, a restart should remove it as well.
 
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A restart will unmount the dmg, but you still have the file on the drive, probably not needed.
 
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Got it eliminated, Thanks
 

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