[RUNEMASTER]

Ive got this mac laptop or notebook that is running mac OS X.

I found some mac freeware using my pc and then transferred all these apps to a folder in mac i named freebies.

I took each individual app (not archived), and made a folder for it inside this folder named freebies.


Using my pc mindset i tried to install the apps by just clicking open. In only one case did the application actually install.

1. Anyway, I also do not understand what the icons that look like drives represent? These are on the desktop now.

2.I probabbly went about it the wrong way in my installations.

3. now id like to uninstall these applications and maybe install them properly.


4.Is there a general way to install applications using this OS? In pc you just click the .exe file and it installs to a folder called "my programs", but with mac I have no idea. Now I have to unistall all these apps possibly and reinstall. just cause many dont work. All together they where just like 5 apps.little ones.


Guess i just need to know how to properly install/and unisntall apps.

Any help appreciated. if anyone needs a buddy on yahoo let me know.i could use a yahoo mac using buddy. What are those drive looking icons on the destop?

[BryanBowie]

Hi,
I saw nobody hooked you up with an answer yet, so in case youre still wondering:

1st
Basically, once the Apps youve downloaded are on your new Mac, you should have no problem just double clicking them, and the "Installer" will begin, and by default your apps should be installed into the systems "Applications" folder/section.

(Open up a finder window, you can click on the little Mac Face in your dock, and one will pop up, on the left youll see a Network Icon, a Hard Drive icon, then icons for Desktop, Applications, Documents, etc, click on the Applications one, that will bring up all of your installed Applications, check to see if the ones youve installed are in there)

If not, open a finder window, on the top right youll see a searchbar, search for what youve downloaded and tried to install, when you click on one, the bottom of the window, will show you where it is, if its in anything besides the folder youve put them into, throw them away for now, and empty your trash)

Go back into the folder youve put everything in. Open one up, double click on it, this is when one of those white "Drives" you were talking about should appear on your desktop, double click to open that up, inside will be that App youve downloaded.

Then, just drag it into that "Applications" icon thats on the left of the window, it should be installed from there, then repeat.

So, those "Drives" that show up, are what appears when youve downloaded an application, its where the app is located.

This is basic stuff, you should be set, if it sounds complicated, do it a few times, youl be like a trained monkey man!

Bryan

[RUNEMASTER]

HEheh! Thanks man. Getting the hang. Though this little laptop is relatively worhtless now that i am beginning to use it. Still love that pc. Pc is my first love.HEHEh.

Thanks again.

[ibook_steve]

I'm not sure I quite understand what "this little laptop is relatively worhtless now that i am beginning to use it" means but BryanBowie didn't quite explaine everything that you need to know. When you download Mac software, it is usually zipped. When unzipped, you get a .dmg file. .dmg is a disk image file. Double-clicking a disk image "mounts" a virtual disk on your desktop. That's what the white drives you see are. Most of the time, to install software, you either double-click an installer program on the virtual drive or you just drag the application off of the drive image to a place on your hard drive such as your Applications folder. When you are done with the installation or copying the program, "eject" the drive images by clicking their eject button in a Finder window or dragging them to the Trash (which turns into an eject icon). I'm not quite sure how you could install something incorrectly. Can you give examples of what software you are talking about and having problems with?

Steve