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Installing Apps

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C8XY

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May 11, 2008
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Hi,

Ive downloaded a few apps from the net and they appear as a drive, i open the drive and run the programs, i get asked if i want to run it as it was downloaded from the internet, i say fine...

These apps dont appear in the app folder so i drag them there...
They are greyed out icons and everytime i run them it asks me if im sure about it because they are from the net...

Am i doing something wrong here? I want the apps in the app folder with the proper icon and i dont want to be asked everytime if i want to open them.

How do you install on a mac? Its all new to me :confused:

Thanks!
 
could you provide a screenshot of the "greyed-out apps"? (command-shift-3) i'm not sure what you mean by that because it works fine for me when i drag the application from the disk image to the Applications folder
 
you download the app from the site, it will appear on the desktop as a drive, you open the drive up and drag the app to your applications folder. then you can add it to the dock or whatever. when you open it for the first time, it will ask you if you want to open it, it will only ask you one time. that's it, when you want to uninstall, you just drag the app to the trash.
 
Ok, sorry for the delay, i had to set up a photobucket account! Below is the screen grab, the programs have stopped asking me if im sure i want to open, strangely one app has decided to use its own icon (the one with the "?") but the other two remain greyed out....

GRAB.jpg


Any ideas?
 
in app folder right click on app and get info. under architecture make shure it matches what you have on your computer (intel [imac, macbook, mac pro, mac mini] or powerpc [powerbook, imac, powermac, mac mini]) if it says universal, then i have no idea what is wrong
 
I think that's just a stacks problem. Try restarting or running

"killall Dock" in terminal (without the speech marks)
Terminal can be found in Applications/Utilities

All apps SHOULD show there own icons, like handbrake has done. That's correct.

To check / make sure it's just a stacks problem click the 'open in finder' button and see if the apps show up with their correct icons.
Mac the ripper should be an icon of a CD with blood on it (nice!) and I don't know about tooble.

Do a restart is what I say.
 
It says PowerPC, and i have an intel, theres the problem!

Strange how the app still works though???
 
pjrobertson said:
I think that's just a stacks problem. Try restarting or running

"killall Dock" in terminal (without the speech marks)
Terminal can be found in Applications/Utilities

All apps SHOULD show there own icons, like handbrake has done. That's correct.

To check / make sure it's just a stacks problem click the 'open in finder' button and see if the apps show up with their correct icons.
Mac the ripper should be an icon of a CD with blood on it (nice!) and I don't know about tooble.

Do a restart is what I say.
Click to expand...

i don't know about that, but try it.
 
pjrobertson said:
I think that's just a stacks problem. Try restarting or running

"killall Dock" in terminal (without the speech marks)
Terminal can be found in Applications/Utilities

All apps SHOULD show there own icons, like handbrake has done. That's correct.

To check / make sure it's just a stacks problem click the 'open in finder' button and see if the apps show up with their correct icons.
Mac the ripper should be an icon of a CD with blood on it (nice!) and I don't know about tooble.

Do a restart is what I say.
Click to expand...

Ive had stacks problems before (invisible stacks!) and that is solved by a restart.
Will make sure i shut down tonight :cool:
 
Thanks a lot guys, a restart did the trick in the end... All is fine :cool:
 
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