Whatsapp Installer on Desktop

The icon on your desktop is a mounted disk image. These are are encapsulated archive .dmg and .img files that mount as a physical disk or flash drive would on your desktop. Once you drag the icon as Niel suggests to the applications folder, it will be able to launch from the applications folder. At that point the icon in the Dock will be able to be saved to the dock for future use.

People make the mistake to try to launch the application directly from the image, and wonder why their saved Dock icon doesn't work when the image is no longer mounted. That's because unlike PCs, the Dock is merely a non-file saved shortcut to an actual file. So wherever you launch the application is the location the Dock shortcut points to.

Ah, I think I sorted it. Apologies. I remove the icon from the dock, removed the whatsapp installer from the desktop, opened the whatsapp app from the applications folder and reatached it to the dock. Now it works.

Double-click the icon on the desktop and drag the application inside to the Applications folder or elsewhere as desired.

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I have the same problem. I double clicked the icon and moved it to the applications file, but the icon remains on my desktop. How do I remove the icon from my desktop.? The prompt I see when I drag the desk icon to the trash is that the application is in use.

I have the same problem and followed the above advice with dragging the "Whatsapp Installer" into the applications. However. Each time I open the whatsapp app which I kepp in the dock, the whatsapp installer pops up on the desktop again. If I delete it from there I cant open whatsapp (on the dock) anymore. Even though a version of whatsapp and whatsapp installer is in the applications folder. What am I doing wrong?

But did you lose your previous chats?

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