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I installed a lot of apps on my new MacBook, and I can see my desktop is filling with file mounts for each app. The Finder is also listing them like this.

Can someone please help me understand why that happens? What is the use of those mounts? Is there a way I can control/hide/stop that?

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I installed a lot of apps on my new MacBook, and I can see my desktop is filling with file mounts for each app. The Finder is also listing them like this.

Can someone please help me understand why that happens? What is the use of those mounts? Is there a way I can control/hide/stop that?

macos macbook finder mount

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I installed a lot of apps on my new MacBook, and I can see my desktop is filling with file mounts for each app. The Finder is also listing them like this.

Can someone please help me understand why that happens? What is the use of those mounts? Is there a way I can control/hide/stop that?

macos macbook finder mount

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These seem to be installers DMGs. You can unmount and discard them after installing the apps in your computer, typically by copying them to /Applications or ~/Applications.

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  Some of those contain an installer app which needs tro be run by double clicking not just copying.
  
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  Thanks. I removed all. But every time I open Chrome, it creates a new one. Any idea why?
  
  – Bee
  33 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  I think the reason is that you have open tabs that correspond to download URLs and you have "Always Open Files Of This Type" enabled for .dmgs, so every time Chrome is opened it'll download them. To stop this from happening, check that you don't have open tabs with .dmg URLs in them.
  
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  13 mins ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  I just checked. No tabs as such :-/
  
  – Bee
  3 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

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These seem to be installers DMGs. You can unmount and discard them after installing the apps in your computer, typically by copying them to /Applications or ~/Applications.

share|improve this answer

answered 10 hours ago

lhflhf

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• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Some of those contain an installer app which needs tro be run by double clicking not just copying.
  
  – Mark
  10 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Thanks. I removed all. But every time I open Chrome, it creates a new one. Any idea why?
  
  – Bee
  33 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I think the reason is that you have open tabs that correspond to download URLs and you have "Always Open Files Of This Type" enabled for .dmgs, so every time Chrome is opened it'll download them. To stop this from happening, check that you don't have open tabs with .dmg URLs in them.
  
  – jogloran
  13 mins ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I just checked. No tabs as such :-/
  
  – Bee
  3 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

6

These seem to be installers DMGs. You can unmount and discard them after installing the apps in your computer, typically by copying them to /Applications or ~/Applications.

share|improve this answer

answered 10 hours ago

lhflhf

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• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Some of those contain an installer app which needs tro be run by double clicking not just copying.
  
  – Mark
  10 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Thanks. I removed all. But every time I open Chrome, it creates a new one. Any idea why?
  
  – Bee
  33 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I think the reason is that you have open tabs that correspond to download URLs and you have "Always Open Files Of This Type" enabled for .dmgs, so every time Chrome is opened it'll download them. To stop this from happening, check that you don't have open tabs with .dmg URLs in them.
  
  – jogloran
  13 mins ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I just checked. No tabs as such :-/
  
  – Bee
  3 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

These seem to be installers DMGs. You can unmount and discard them after installing the apps in your computer, typically by copying them to /Applications or ~/Applications.

share|improve this answer

answered 10 hours ago

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answered 10 hours ago

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answered 10 hours ago

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answered 10 hours ago

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