what's with the *.dms?

[teng_da]

hi all!

I just bought the new 1.25 imac last weekend, what a beauty!!

Now I have a question, I downloaded some softwares such like Yahoo Messenger, Outlook 2001 whose installation files end with .dms

The system won't open it. what can I do? I need my Yahoo Messenger

Please help! Thank You all!!

[edesignuk]

I have never heard of .dms, try renaming to .dmg and double click the file, if it is a .dmg a disk should mount on your desktop.

[meniscus]

Afaik, YM doesn't even use a DMG installer, I just went to the site and the download is a .bin file that extracts to "Yahoo! Messenger 2.5.3 (OS X)" on your desktop. Installs just fine on my PB 1.33.

If the files you're having trouble with come off a CD someone ripped, just download the latest versions from the websites instead.

[slowtreme]

Originally posted by teng_da
I downloaded some softwares such like Yahoo Messenger, Outlook 2001 whose installation files end with .dms
You downloaded Outlook2001? Wow that's mighty nice of MS to give you Outlook for free.

Maybe .dms is a virus

[Fukui]

Check this website, it has all the extension you could think of. (http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5ED)
According to this site, you downloaded some Amiga DiskMaSher (DMS) compressed files...uh, I don't know if that helps or not.

I'm not even going to suggest that its a "Packrat Database Index" file....

[teng_da]

Thank u all first

The problem was there's been a misanderstanding between Safari and Speed download II.
Everything Safari picked up was renamed to *.dms instead of .dmg which they are suppose to be.
I uninstalled SDII and now the prob is solved.

Thank you all again!!

ps., I got the imac for two weeks and by far what I like the most about it, is apple's phone support, they are really the best service I've ever been with!!