Re: What are Device files on my desktop?

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<ea343584-303e-47a9-bd73-538e79a74e9c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
PedroS <peteshomebase@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Im new to a mac and recently i downloaded 2 apps. Specifically
Adium (chat program) and msn messenger. Anyways today i noticed two
new files on my desktop one for each of these applications, some sort
of device files. After ctrl key and mouse click on each file, a popup
gave me an option to eject them so i did and they disappeared. Can
someone tell me what they are and how are they used?

ps sorry if this is a very elementary question :)

Those are mounted disk images:

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106161>

That article is a little dated, but the basic principle is the same. The
image files you mounted were probably DMG files with the .dmg filename
extension.

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