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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images System
I don't know about any of you, but I absolutely hate internet-enabled disk images. I do see the value in them when distributing software. I like to keep disk images sometimes, though, so I'd rather manually copy my own software to my apps folder. The problem is that you can't simply turn off internet-enabled disk images in Safari; you have to completely turn off the auto-opening of all "safe" files. That means things like Stuffit archives won't automatically expand, and I want those to always expand.

Well, a friend of mine who works at Apple let me know of this cool little preference that allows you to tell the Disk Copy Framework to completely ignore internet-enabled disk images and treat them like normal disk images. To do so, just type the following command into the Terminal:

  defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-idme true
Of course, to re-enable the processing of internet-enabled disk images, you just need to enter this command into the Terminal:

  defaults delete com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-idme
That's it! Another pretty simple but very hidden preference.

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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: chabig on Feb 18, '04 12:52:29PM

The internet enabled disk images always leave a non-enabled image in the trash. You just have to get it out of there. I guess this is a bit more convenient since it's automatic.



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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: robg on Feb 18, '04 01:20:37PM

My problem with them is two-fold ... first, I tend to batch download and then install/test later (often times much later). So I'll visit macupdate.com and start 10 or 12 downloads, but I don't really want to install anything right now. But anything that's internet enabled ignores my desires and installs itself.

the second reason I hate them is as you noted -- if you want to keep a library of "installers" on a spare hard drive, you have to make a trip to the trash to find the original.

I think the internet-enabled images are a good idea for one-time installs, and it certainly prevents confusion on the part of those who may be new to the Mac and disk images (I know many people who often times run things off the disk image without actually installing it ...). But for me, they were just a pain in the butt :).

-rob.



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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: Accura on Feb 18, '04 07:17:27PM

were a pain in the butt. thanx for the hint simX

jameso

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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: asan102 on Feb 18, '04 01:57:29PM

Um, what is an internet-enabled disk image? Is that just an image that auto-mounts, or what?



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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: eaprince on Feb 18, '04 03:04:40PM

Internet enabled images will (after download) automatically mount themselves, extract the contents then unmount and delete themselves. As was mentioned, this is annoying if you want to keep the image for later and just copy the files manually.

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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: robg on Feb 18, '04 03:30:06PM
It auto-mounts, copies the app that's on the image to the same spot on your hard drive (or launches the installer on the image), unmounts, and then throws itself in the trash.

This article on Apple's Developer site explains it in more detail.

-rob.

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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: huzzam on Feb 18, '04 03:05:03PM

THANK YOU! Now if only i could find a way to turn off auto-complete for safari addresses & address book information (i've started calling it "auto-mangle" in my mind, bad news when you start calling things special names in your mind...).



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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: dabeatles on Feb 18, '04 04:16:32PM

A much simpler way is just to option-click the link. It downloads to your default location, but doesn't open.



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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: thelamecamel on Feb 18, '04 06:58:23PM

In Safari 1.0.1, if not later versions, the option to disable address autofill is in the preferences, under "autofill". I presume you want to untick the "Using info from my Address Book card"

HTH



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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: JaxMyers on Feb 19, '04 08:02:39AM

Any idea if I can tell Safari to not auto open MP3s? Sometimes it interrupts what I'm listening to and plays a song I was downloading and that's annoying.

I'd like to keep auto open of other files on though...



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Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images
Authored by: carsten on Mar 10, '04 03:28:42PM

Thank you!! Awesome tip!

Would be nice if Apple added this to Disk Copy's preferences.



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