That only appears there once I've opened it up. You can see there's that Goggle Chrome disk image. Here's an external drive that I have connected and my Time Machine drive that I've connected.
If we look in the Finder in the sidebar and you look for Locations, you may have to hit the Show button next to Locations, you'll see a list of all your drives. But there's something a little different going on. Then it will open up in a new Finder window here and it looks just like a folder in the Finder.
You may see it say Verifying as it verifies the contents to make sure that the download was intact. When you double click on one of these to open it, it will take a little while to open. Basically the content of an external disk but stored inside a file. Like a USB thumb drive that you plug into your Mac or an external drive. So what is a disk image? Well, a disk image is a type of file that pretends to be a drive.
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If you're not seeing file extensions you can always select the file, use Command i, and then you can see the full file name there and see that it is a disk image. Now these files don't look like apps because they're not. But if you don't you can just go to Finder and go to Go, then Downloads and it will take you to your Downloads folder. You may also have the Downloads folder in your Dock in which case you can click it and see the file you've downloaded. In Safari you can click on Downloads here and you can see your recent downloads. Not from some other site that just lists a bunch of apps to download.
That's why you always make sure that you go to the developer's site and download from their links. Often the app may be something you trust but is the website you're downloading from something you trust. Just remember to only ever download software from sites that you trust and make sure you're downloading from the OFFICIAL site of the app. These could be all sorts of different types of apps provided by third parties at their official website. I'm just using Firefox and Chrome as an example. Then it will download to your Downloads folder. It may or may not ask you for permission. When you go to Firefox you get a Download Now button. Then it downloads it to the Downloads folder. The first time you do this it's going to ask you for permission to download from this site. I'm going to go to the official Goggle Chrome download page. So as an example I'm going to download 2 third party web browsers. Let me show you what to do in this situation Usually there's an arrow going from one to the other. Then you'll see that application and you'll also see something that looks like the Applications folder. When you open that disk image it looks just like a folder but it's a little different.
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So a common way to install third party apps on your Mac is to download them from their official websites and then you end up with what's called a disk image. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 600 supporters.
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Today let me show you how to properly install most third party apps that you download from websites. Check out Understanding How To Install Mac Apps Downloaded From Web Sites at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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