dmg file

acheryl · #1 (**permalink**) August 12th, 2005

Hi, can anyone tell me what a .dmg file is and what application opens one. It doesn't refer to damaged or corrupted files does it?

Lord of the Rings · #2 (**permalink**) August 12th, 2005

A dmg file is a mac OSX image file. It can be mounted on your desktop using Disk Copy. Just drag & drop the dmg onto disk copy or its icon.

See http://filext.com/detaillist.php?ext...&Submit3=Go%21 & also http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/.dmg

A disk image is as it suggests that it can or should be able to be burnt to disk as is. It is often an identical copy of the original cd/dvd. But a dmg can be made out of incomplete images or a bunch of files ready to burn.

For difficulties with dmg files see: No Mountable File Systems (Error 95): http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=29131
Also: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=24703

Sometimes downlding a dmg can be incomplete when using a browser that can't handle dmg files very well such as Explorer or Netscape. Safari is the prefered browser.

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