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few more questions this one is about the dock
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 378691" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>You have not installed it yet. You only have it on the computer and it is only in the dock while it is running. I was a little confused also the first couple of times I installed software since many apps, unlike under windows, allow you to open and run them without actually installing it to the system.</p><p></p><p>This is the procedure you will use to install most software that downloads as a .dmg file.</p><p>What you now see with firefox, when you open the .dmg file it will place a hard drive icon with it's name on your desktop. When you click on the hard drive icon it opens another box on your screen. Like you see with firefox, inside will be an icon for the software and an arrow pointing to a folder with an A on it. This is letting you know to drag and drop the firefox icon to your applications folder to install it.</p><p>At this point open Finder if it is not already open(double click on Macintosh HD)</p><p>On the left side you will see the Applications folder</p><p>Just drag the firefox icon and drop it there</p><p>Now firefox is installed and you can close and delete all the firefox files on your desktop. The ones that look like hard drives, you will right click (or control click) and "eject". They will then disappear.</p><p></p><p>Now to add fire fox to the dock - you do still have the finder window open - if not open it again</p><p>Highlight Applications on the left side - find firefox on the right side - grab firefox and drag 'n drop it on the left side of the dock. It will now stay there all the time. Now you can close finder.</p><p></p><p>Maybe a holdover from my windows side - I like to keep the original file of anything I install on my machine. If you want to do this, you can create a folder anywhere to move the original .dmg file. I just made a folder on the desktop called downloads and keep all of them in there. Gives me a good record also of what I've done to the machine since I brought it home also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 378691, member: 24160"] You have not installed it yet. You only have it on the computer and it is only in the dock while it is running. I was a little confused also the first couple of times I installed software since many apps, unlike under windows, allow you to open and run them without actually installing it to the system. This is the procedure you will use to install most software that downloads as a .dmg file. What you now see with firefox, when you open the .dmg file it will place a hard drive icon with it's name on your desktop. When you click on the hard drive icon it opens another box on your screen. Like you see with firefox, inside will be an icon for the software and an arrow pointing to a folder with an A on it. This is letting you know to drag and drop the firefox icon to your applications folder to install it. At this point open Finder if it is not already open(double click on Macintosh HD) On the left side you will see the Applications folder Just drag the firefox icon and drop it there Now firefox is installed and you can close and delete all the firefox files on your desktop. The ones that look like hard drives, you will right click (or control click) and "eject". They will then disappear. Now to add fire fox to the dock - you do still have the finder window open - if not open it again Highlight Applications on the left side - find firefox on the right side - grab firefox and drag 'n drop it on the left side of the dock. It will now stay there all the time. Now you can close finder. Maybe a holdover from my windows side - I like to keep the original file of anything I install on my machine. If you want to do this, you can create a folder anywhere to move the original .dmg file. I just made a folder on the desktop called downloads and keep all of them in there. Gives me a good record also of what I've done to the machine since I brought it home also. [/QUOTE]
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