Can I Delete Dmg File After Installation
.Once the program is installed, then installer is no longer necessary.But.; You may want to burn them to a CD so you can find and use them easily at a later time.Depending on the program, I keep a lot of them as backups so I could quickly reinstall the program should the hard drive die or the computer take a dive.I tend to save all the driver installers, antispyware installers, java, etc. And anything else that might take me time to find later. It's entirely up to you but that's how I handle program installers.Hope this helps.Grif. I have several older programs which I have downloaded from their respective websites. These still work with windows XP, except for the installations apparently.
Once you double click the DMG file it will open as a read only drive and appear under devices, if you then click on the read only drive it has opened as there will either be a.pkg file you can double click which loads an installer menu. Right-click on the File “Eject” (click on virtual disk instead of, original file) Delete the old DMG Files after installing. The reason is old files may take more space when we install new programs. Resize DMG Files. Right click DMG File Click Get Info (View the original size). Yes you can delete them. But I'd only delete them if I don't have enough storage for them and if it's easy to redownload the file again for future installation. They have prove to be time saving if you need to install it on another PC.
The self extracting exe's are located on a removable backup drive. The other day one was giving me trouble, so I attempted to do an uninstall/re-install. I got that same message (basically that the.msi installer package was missing) when trying to UNINSTALL it and RE-INSTALL it. There is no CD for these older progs (which it requests seemingly without other option), nor do they have these newfangled MS installer packages. Any clues what to do in this case other than the tedious process of going through the harddrive and registry, etc. To remove it by hand?
Files I Can Delete
I did update to the newer windows installer( 3.1 KB893803), and can't seem to find it for uninstallation in add/remove or the windows folder?
The same thing happened to me shortly after I moved to a Mac. I made the same mistake you probably did: I ran Firefox from its.dmg file, and every time I ran it, the.dmg re-opened on my desktop. The way to install an application on a Mac (once you have downloaded it) is to:.
Open its.dmg. Drag the application file inside it to your or the system's applications folder. Drag the application's icon from the application folder (not from the.dmg) to the dock, if you want it there.
Right-click or cmd-click the.dmg file and eject it. Delete the.dmg file - it was just a shipping container.For your currently sort-of-installed Skype, right click the Skype icon on the dock, select options, and uncheck 'Open at Login'. Drag the Skype icon off the dock (it goes poof!
And disappears). Re-do the install as above. If you want it to start whenever you log in, use the dock icon again to select that option.
Can I Delete Dmg File After Installation
Look for Skype in System Preferences Accounts , on the Login Items tab, in the list of applications to be run at startup. (This is the likely 'Autostart' place). If you find it there, right click it and and select Reveal in Finder. That should show you where Skype is being loaded from, if it's not from the installed application (maybe it's still being loaded from the.dmg in the trash). If you find it is being loaded from somewhere other than your or the system's Applications folder, delete it from the Login Items list to be continued.–Sep 25 '10 at 15:31.
I had a similar issue with a DMG file sitting in Places within my Finder. I couldn't seem to delete or remove the file - regardless of what I did. Same as the person above, when I right clicked on the item, it brought up the preferences for finder. If I double clicked on the item, it told me that it couldn't find the file.I am assuming that somewhere along the line, I installed the software, somehow dragged the.dmg file into the places section and then had deleted / ejected the original DMG File - leaving the file in my places.After thinking about it a bit, I went searching for the original file on the net which I strangely couldn't find.
It was some random installer for WebEx software that I think auto installed when I participated in a webex conference.So, I tried to trick it. I renamed another.dmg file to the same name as the ghost file and then double clicked to open it. The.dmg file showed up in my 'devices' section - actually with the correct.dmg info, not the renamed file.HOWEVER, now when I right clicked on the ghost file, it gave me the option to remove the item from the sidebar - which is what I wanted to do. I then ejected the.dmg file and problem solved.