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4 Replies Last post: Oct 9, 2003 4:20 PM by Southern_Gent  
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cunninj3
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Oct 9, 2003 3:16 PM

gzip?????

I'm sorry - this is probably a hugely stupid question, but I'm a very new mac user...

I wanted to try out iblog - so I downloaded the trial, (had to do it at work and burn it on cd - I only have a dial-up connection at home) and it's file extension is .dmg.gz - so I double clicked on it, StuffIt expander opened, and then closed - nothing happened. I'm guessing I need some kind of additional software to uncompress this - but from there I'm clueless. I don't know if downloading it from another computer (a windows computer) at work made a difference.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Joanne
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Noela
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1. Oct 9, 2003 3:30 PM in response to: cunninj3
Re: gzip?????
I do not know what that .gz means (gzip??), but I've seen it before. What I do in these cases, I just change the file name to whatevername.dmg (i.e. just delete this .gz), the icon changes to something very familiar, and then you can easily proceed with double clicking.

/Noela
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drmbb
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Jun 14, 2001
2. Oct 9, 2003 3:37 PM in response to: cunninj3
Re: gzip?????
Stuffit does indeed support .gz (yes, that means "gzip" compression) files. Usually, when it can't expand them, it means a corrupted download, in my experience.
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cunninj3
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3. Oct 9, 2003 3:44 PM in response to: cunninj3
Re: gzip?????
Thanks - I tried to delete the .gz from the filename, and it created a mounted disk on my desktop - I can double click it, open the iblog folder, and run the application, but it doesn't seem like I can install it on my HD. I dragged the image to my applications folder and it looked like it made a shortcut, but didn't install.

I'm going to try to download the file from home (ugh - it's going to take HOURS!) and see if there's a difference - maybe it did somehow get corrupted...

Thanks for the help!
Joanne
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Southern_Gent
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Nov 5, 2001
4. Oct 9, 2003 4:20 PM in response to: cunninj3
Re: gzip?????
Click on the image and command-C (copy). Then open the applications folder and then use command-V (paste). This should copy the file into applications and not a shortcut.
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