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how to open .bin and .dmg files

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bleufire

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Apr 28, 2007
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when i try to open a .bin file, Quicktime pops up and says "the movie cannot be displayed" and when i try opening a .dmg file it opens in text editor in some wierd funk. HELP!


(im glad to know that i can get help and it may be something simple cause on my winCRAP machine i would of reformatted it just so i don't have to deal with it... :).....)
 
I'm not on my mac so can't check for you, but a simple search revealed this for the DMG problem.

By default, a .dmg file should be opened by DiskImageMounter.app, which is located in System/Library/CoreServices.

If you highlight the disk image file and type command+I, you should be able to select DiskImageMounter.app from the Open with offering. Then, click on Change All below.

If DiskImageMounter.app is not offered, navigate to the app as above, and drag'n'drop the .dmg file onto the application icon.
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As for .bin, it may open with the same application, or you may have to rename it with the extension .iso and then it should open with the same app. However I can't test anything from where I am sorry.

Disk Image Mounter
 
bleufire said:
when i try to open a .bin file, Quicktime pops up and says "the movie cannot be displayed" and when i try opening a .dmg file it opens in text editor in some wierd funk. HELP!


(im glad to know that i can get help and it may be something simple cause on my winCRAP machine i would of reformatted it just so i don't have to deal with it... :).....)
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Definitely sounds like you have your file associations goofed up. .bin files usually open with an unarchiving application, like BOMArchiveHelper.
 
.bin files are video too, to sort this click on the file and press command I, then in the open with pop up choose DiskImageMounter for the .dmg and BOMArchiveHelper for the .bin and press Change All, and you'll be sorted :).
 
mkrishnan said:
I thought .bin files were typically opened with StuffIt? I didn't know that BOMArchiverHelper could open them!
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Sorry I haven't been clear at all :eek:, .bin files are an old Mac "zip" format, which Stuffit opens, they are also one of the more obscure video formats.

In this case it seems the OP has an archive, but they could be either.
 
Actually I swear by The UnArchiver. Beats 'em all.

Apple said:
About The Unarchiver
A much more capable replacement for “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. Support for so many formats is achieved by using the libxad unarchiving library.
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Thanks!

AWESOME!!! Thanks guys! I thought i broke! hehe... I knew it wouldn't be true cause it is a :apple: !:D :D
 
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