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Does anyone know how to remove dmg files from my desktop after installation? I have tried ejecting, moving to trash and emptying it, starting in safe mode and doing the same, and updating my software to latest version. Yet after all of that, the dmg files keep returning to my desktop.
Confirm they are the image files and not the mounted disk?
I don’t think this can happen with it in the Trash, but if you mount the image and drag the app into the Dock, when you click on the app icon in the Dock, it will mount the disk from the image.
.dmg files are just disk image files. They don't move or replicate themselves.
If a .dmg file isn't opened up and mounted, and you have permissions to delete it, you should be able to drag it to the Trash and empty the Trash. If that doesn't work, there may be some application on your Mac which is actively replacing the .dmg files. What application would do this? To me, that would be a potential cause of concern.
they are google chrome and capture one 22. Both were installed months ago and work fine. The dmg files persist on the desktop. I can eject or move to trash and they are gone. Until I step away from my computer and come back 20 minutes later only to see them on the desktop again. I don’t know that this is harming anything. More just very annoying.
It is not normal for .dmg files to come back again.
Even if Google Chrome or Capture One 22 wanted to maintain local copies of their .dmg installers – which I don't think they would – why would they place them on the Desktop, instead of out of the way in some folder?
Something does not add up.
As noted, files don't magically reappear after being deleted, DMG files or not.
Install EtreCheck and post the report. Allow Full Disk Access.
Use the Additional Text icon to paste in the report.
i know!
i guess i need to go make a genius bar appointment or something.
frustrating stuff.
You might avoid a trip to the Genius Bar if you post the EtreCheck report. It may reveal the source of the problem.
here it is!
here it isn't. :)
When you're in EtreCheck, click on "Share Report", then Copy Report, then paste it into your reply using the Additional test icon.
haha. trying again.
Confirm they are the image files and not the mounted disk?
I don’t think this can happen with it in the Trash, but if you mount the image and drag the app into the Dock, when you click on the app icon in the Dock, it will mount the disk from the image.
+1 That will teach me for taking a post literally. :)
i dont really know frankly.
this is what they look like.
Those are mounted DMG files.
Got it.
Any way to get them off my desktop? Or are they meant to just be there in perpetuity?
Dmg files
