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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 160671" data-attributes="member: 7582"><p>If you want to keep a copy of the app you could open a folder called "Downloads", or whatever and have the downloads saved to that folder, otherwise you will end up with a whole lot of icons on your desktop. Much neater that way. If you do a lot of downloading you might want to burn those .dmgs off to a cd now and then, otherwise you will end up with a hard drive full of .dmgs.</p><p></p><p>Other wise once you have clicked on the .dmg and installed the program into your Aplications folder, you can then just drag the .dmg to the trash and get rid of it, same with any "short cut icon".</p><p></p><p>Normally you would not have a short cut in the dock unless it was a program that you use a lot. For example my doc has a web browser, an email program, my word processor, graphics program, and iTunes in it because these are programs i use daily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 160671, member: 7582"] If you want to keep a copy of the app you could open a folder called "Downloads", or whatever and have the downloads saved to that folder, otherwise you will end up with a whole lot of icons on your desktop. Much neater that way. If you do a lot of downloading you might want to burn those .dmgs off to a cd now and then, otherwise you will end up with a hard drive full of .dmgs. Other wise once you have clicked on the .dmg and installed the program into your Aplications folder, you can then just drag the .dmg to the trash and get rid of it, same with any "short cut icon". Normally you would not have a short cut in the dock unless it was a program that you use a lot. For example my doc has a web browser, an email program, my word processor, graphics program, and iTunes in it because these are programs i use daily. [/QUOTE]
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