decryptedFile.DMG - Flash Player - why is that there?

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decryptedFile.DMG - Flash Player - why is that there?

I have 3 computers I take care of in my house and I try to keep them all up to date and well managed. This morning I repaired permissions on all of them. There were tons after the new Airport Utility install.

In Disk Utility, on the Mac Pro, on the left side where the disks are listed there is a line at the bottom of the HDs and this item I have never seen before:

"decryptedFile.DMG"

[disk image icon] Flash Player

Why? It only shows on one of the 3 computers. I remember getting an update notification from Adobe. The path to it as shown in the bottom of the Disk Utility window is

/Mac Pro HD/private/var/folders…. and on and on

the disk image shown under the title of the file is greyed out and indicates 'not mounted'.

Any ideas?

Posted on Jun 22, 2011 4:10 AM

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baltwo

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Jun 22, 2011 10:20 AM in response to Eddie Strauss

COMMAND+click and drag off the DU window. It's a remnant left behind when you last installed Flash Player.

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Eddie Strauss Author

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Jun 22, 2011 10:27 AM in response to baltwo

thank you baltwo. I had already decided to remove it by finding the address in the Finder GO menu. The actual installer icon was there too in a different folder. I figured I'd reinstall Flash if necessary.

I didn't know the list on the left was in any way functional. Thanks for that tip.

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baltwo

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Jun 22, 2011 11:06 AM in response to Eddie Strauss

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Jan 6, 2012 6:03 AM in response to Eddie Strauss

Does this still leave decryptedFile.dmg on the computer?

I tried to do the command+Left Click and drag off Disk Utility, it did not work.

Should I just reveal in finder and trash the decryptedFile.dmg?

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baltwo

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Jan 6, 2012 10:57 AM in response to baltwo

Sorry for the image muck up. Should have been:

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Lysergic

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Apr 9, 2012 5:52 PM in response to baltwo

I've tried your advice and the "decryptedFile.dmg" and the Flash Player will not move. Any other suggestions?

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baltwo

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Apr 9, 2012 7:13 PM in response to Lysergic

Testing the image transfer:

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Answer 8

May 9, 2012 5:40 PM in response to Lysergic

Late reply, but for anyone else having this issue, first right click and "eject" the disk image, after that the command-drag should work to remove it.

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Answer 9

Jul 18, 2012 12:38 PM in response to Eddie Strauss

In Disk Utility, select the decryptedfile.dmg. You'll then see a blue link to the actual file at the bottom of the screen. Click it and you'll be directed to the file, which is in a Temp folder. Trash it. Close Disk Utility and open it again. The decryptedfile.dmg will no longer show up.

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Answer 10

Jul 27, 2012 10:12 PM in response to Eddie Strauss

If you've upgrade to OS X ML, try holding down "Option" key (or right click if using a mouse) and chooe "Eject". This worked for me.

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Alvin777

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Aug 15, 2012 6:08 PM in response to Damiansound

Hi. This mounted on Disk Utility suddenly. I got to eject it easily but why'd it mount by itself and how did it do it in the first place. I thought I had a virus and it's changing dmg file names and mounting it. What caused it to mount?

Thank you in advance.

Gbu.

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Answer 12

Aug 16, 2012 7:11 AM in response to Alvin777

@Alvin777

No worries, this is not harmful at all. It was just a bug in one of the versions of Flash plug-in update.

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wyappy

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Sep 10, 2012 4:36 AM in response to baltwo

Thanks Kevin - option & eject did it on my MBP. Great Day to All!!

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dmdimon

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Oct 10, 2012 11:19 AM in response to baltwo

think again

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Answer 15

Feb 28, 2013 3:27 AM in response to Eddie Strauss

Hola a todos, a mi me ha pasado lo mismo,

Pero lo que me preocupa es que ningún empleado trabajador de Apple o trabajador de Adobe Flash Player, se pronuncie y diga que es eso de decryptedFile.dmg Flash Player

Saludos,

Hi all, to me has been the same,

But what worries me is that no Apple employee or worker worker of Adobe Flash Player, to rule and say that's that Flash Player decryptedFile.dmg

regards,

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