Whenever I download apps from the Internet...

[smeind]

Hmm.. So, I got my first Mac today, but, I have used them several times before.

So, I get it, and I want to download some stuff (Firefox, VLC, Control Tunes, Fliqio)

Ok, So I download them.. but, now when I open up the program.. It shows that it opens up in a external drive or something? I white icon pops up that says what program I'm using, and when I finish, I have to eject it? Kinda like with a thumb drive.. But It's making me do this for VLC, Firefox, and Control tunes..


Is this normal? How do I get it to stop doing that?

 

[Eidorian]

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[smeind]

Ok.. I dragged that file location into the applications folder.. and it still pops up.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Eidorian]

Ok.. I dragged that file location into the applications folder.. and it still pops up.

Am I doing something wrong?

Your Dock icon isn't pointing to the application in /Applications. Remove it and drag the icon from /Applications in.

 

[smeind]

Wow.. Thanks!

It's sooo easy! Since I was coming from a PC, I was sorta expecting a complicated ordeal, but wow.. soooo easy!

 

[akm3]

Wow.. Thanks!

It's sooo easy! Since I was coming from a PC, I was sorta expecting a complicated ordeal, but wow.. soooo easy!

You'll be experiencing a lot of those moments, thinking something isn't working because it has already worked I did.

Printers got me, I plugged it in and...nothing happened. It was already installed and working, but OS X didn't bother to tell me, I wasn't expecting that.

OS X only tells you when something fails, because it's a surprise.
Windows tells you when something works.......because it's a surprise.