Adium help

[macornomac]

Ok here is a newbie question. I have my macbook for a fewdays now and I'm still trying to figure crap out. So I have adium on my macbook and when I boot up the comp Adium dmg shows up on the desktop. Now for me to start adium I click on that and then it opens up adium and other stuff. Then I have to click on the duck to get it started. After all that I have adium dmg on the desktop and also adium x 1.04. Now how do I get rid of these from the desktop??? I think I did it before by dragging to the trash but it erased everything and I had to download it again. Anyway I can get these off the desktop????? Thanks.

[Edandlindz28]

When you open the DMG and see the duck, drag it over to your applications folder, then eject and delete the DMG. Thats all I did.

[keenkreations]

Totally understand running the apps in DMG files. FIRST newbie mistake that I did when I first got a Mac, all those years ago. Just make sure to copy things over to applications. Sometimes running apps in the DMG files can get a little wonky.

[DoFoT9]

hahahaha im sorry but i find this higly amuzing. only a few minutes ago did another n00b post the same problem with dmgs... ahwell its all schweet

welcome to MR and welcome to macs!!!!!

[amitface]

I did the same thing. I was pretty confused. That being said, I love dmgs. I love being able to open a program that I don't plan on using all the time straight from it.

[macornomac]

ok don't make fun of the noob aka me haha. Alright so I tried to do that where I sent the dmg to the applications. I tried to delete it and it says can't remove with program in use. So must I shut it down first also what about that adium x icon can I just delete that outright

[DoFoT9]

ok don't make fun of the noob aka me haha. Alright so I tried to do that where I sent the dmg to the applications. I tried to delete it and it says can't remove with program in use. So must I shut it down first also what about that adium x icon can I just delete that outright

hahaha.... you dont send the dmg to applications, you send whats in it to applications!!!

the reason it wont delete(eject) is because someting from the dmg is still open, most likely adium. so i suggest quitting adium if its open then trying to eject it again

[anirban]

Hahah, this thread took me back two weeks... I was also pretty darn confused. I am used to installing stuff in windows, and expected mac applications to walk through loads of steps to install.... and despite the programs saying "Drag the Icon to Applications Folder", I still used to fool around and took over an hour to install firefox.....

[macornomac]

hahaha.... you dont send the dmg to applications, you send whats in it to applications!!!

the reason it wont delete(eject) is because someting from the dmg is still open, most likely adium. so i suggest quitting adium if its open then trying to eject it again

ok cool got it to work now, I think. So now in applications I see 3 adiums. one just says adium with the duck which I think I can keep. The other is adium x 1.0.4 with a hard disk icon and the other is adium x 1.0.4 alias. Can I get rid of these two or must I keep them????? Thanks a lot.

[DoFoT9]

get rid of the last 2, an alias is a shortcut like in xp. the harddrive is....the dmg file if im not mistaken.. not need those

goodluck!

[macornomac]

alright good to go now. Thanks all for the help.

[deadpixels]

I still used to fool around and took over an hour to install firefox.....
that's what the darkside does to you, burn your brain cells, hopefully after running macs a few years, they'll grow up again :D

[Edandlindz28]

They should make a sticky for DMG on the guides. I don't think I saw one when I was looking. Newbies seem to not understand what the DMG is. I know it took me a quick minute and a phone call to the Bro.

[macornomac]

yeah, i still don't know what the hell it is

[DoFoT9]

its a disk image, pretty much exactly the same as an iso

[psychofreak]

The MacRumors beginners guides (http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_Beginner's_Guide) are awesome for things like this :)

[Edandlindz28]

Yup, there it was, damn you are good. I passed over it when I was looking at the Beginners Guide.
http://guides.macrumors.com/Installing_Applications_in_Mac_OS_X