Pro Tip: We can use the Disk Utility App (in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder) to make our own DMGs.One area of all-new technology the app is boasting is super accurate image alignment. I made it a habit to keep the DMG for a couple of days then I trash it. The Disk Mount Image (DMG) file still contains the 'pretend' hard drive with the Application. That copy is what you will open up and run.

You can now eject the 'pretend' hard drive and you'll still have the copy of the Application in your Applications folder. Or you could drag the Application into/onto your actual Applications folder to copy it into there. Now you can Drag the Application onto the alias for the Application folder and that will copy the Application into your Applications folder. If you open the DMG you should see the 'pretend' hard drive opened up in a new Finder Window, depending on your OS preferences you may also see a Hard Drive icon appear on your Destop. There is also an 'Alias' file for your Mac's Application folder. What the people at Serif/Affinity have done is put the complete Application (Designer or Photo or Publisher) in there. You can open the 'pretend' hard drive and see the files in it. This is a file which the Mac OS will open as a 'pretend' external hard drive. My understanding is that DMG is short for Disk Mount Ima ge. What is DMG installer file? How would I copy to applications? I'm pretty confused. The initial downloaded APh dmg file can be saved/moved to some own backup directory in order to keep it, or if one don't want to keep it locally as a backup, it can be removed/deleted after the installment! The above will not delete the initial downloaded APh dmg file, instead only just get rid of the disk file mounting point. So after dragging/copying the APh app folder over to the system global '/Applications' folder, or alternatively into the user's 'Users/ username/Applications' applications folder (after installing), the mounted disk file point path has to be ejected/ unmounted/removed via pressing the eject icon button -> ' ' next to it, otherwise it would be kept as a mounted disk file path! Note that the DMG (disk image) file when opened (double clicked) will be automounted and appears as a disk mounting point path in MacOS Finder or any other OSX file managers. You then Open the file, and drag the application icon in the file onto the Applications icon. It is a disk image file that you would download from your Affinity Store account.

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