cowasaki
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I keep getting three dmg folders reappearing on my desk top. I keep ejecting them and they keep coming back, they are Paintbrush, Perian & Skype... how do I make it stop it's annoying the hell out of me!:bang:
dmg files are special files that mimic a file system much in the same way that a zip file can. It sounds like they are being placed there as part of an install routine or being downloaded.
Most software on the mac is installed by placing it in the Applications or Utilities directory and then when it is run for the first time it detects where it is and saves its data and temporary files to the relevant locations. Some software however insists that you run an install routine (like my script writer software does) there is nothing wrong with this method and it has advantages plus disadvantages.
Sometimes when you run an application that is designed to be installed it places other files ready for you to install other parts in a location handy for you then continues and runs normally. What have you recently installed? It could be that you need to move the installer back to the desktop, install it then delete the installer because the installer could be copying these files to the desktop each time it runs! You should then be able to run the application from the normal Applications directory minus the install script so it does not do this each time.
If this does not fix it then I wrote a script that deletes certain files every time you log in, you could install this on your computer and just change the filenames but it would be easier to find the culprit.