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Bulk convert DMGs to 'Internet enabled' format
Authored by: mech_filter on Mar 22, '03 08:16:05AM

<shrug> It's just a matter of user preference, largely based on whether
you are a network admin or not.

Me, I find it utterly annoying the way .dmg files behave. Like you I do
(mostly in theory only in my case) appreciate the neatness of keeping a
software distribute as a single easily portable file. But I don't need to
port mine around, and the ridiculous amounts of time wasted manually
creating folders to put .dmg-housed stuff in that you want to actually
use, then hunting down the disk image on your desktop (why on earth is
there no Finder menu option "Unmount..." that pops up a dialog you can
pick stuff to unmount?!), THEN go find the .dmg file and trash that, etc.,
it really all just drives me nuts.

I do strenuously agree with your closing sentence. If disk images, like
StuffIt files if you have Aladdin's "True Finder Integration", simply
behaved like folders, both sides would be happy. The one simple fix
Apple could implement that would go a long way is making .dmg's
behave just like .img's or any other mounted volume - if I drag it to a
folder on my hard drive, it should copy its contents to a folder with the
same name as the dragged disk [image]. Why on earth they thought
anyone anywhere would ever find it useful for this action to instead
create an alias to the mounted image just entirely escapes me. Better
yet, they could do that and make it so that option-clicking (or whatever)
on an image does the same thing my script does, and just gets rid of the
image file w/o it ever being mounted on the desktop, that way we
wouldn't have to go track them down and unmount them.

Maybe in 10.2.5. I can dream, can't I?



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Bulk convert DMGs to 'Internet enabled' format
Authored by: vonleigh on Mar 24, '03 01:12:20AM

"why on earth is there no Finder menu option "Unmount...""

Just control click within the window of the opened disk image, then select eject.


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Bulk convert DMGs to 'Internet enabled' format
Authored by: jervidalo on Mar 24, '03 04:15:26PM

Or press command+E



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