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StuffIt Expander & the .dmg File Type
The file type we use to deliver StuffIt Expander for Mac is Apple's Macintosh OS X Disk Copy Disk Image File (.dmg).
If you see binary code in the browser window instead of the file downloading to your system, you are most likely using a browser that doesn't recognize this file format and it's trying to show you the file as a web page.
You can use Safari or Internet Explorer to attempt the download again or teach the browser you do use about the .dmg file type.
Here is how to tell Firefox to mount a .dmg file on a Mac
1) Click here to go to Mozilla and click on the green Download Firefox button. This may sound odd, but it's a must. This set of instructions will only work on this dmg for reasons that are probably hard to explain. Trust me here.
2) A window will pop up asking you what you want to do with this DMG. Click the 'Choose...' button.
3) Navigate to your-harddrive/system/library/CoreServices/ and choose DiskImageMounter
4) Click the 'Do this automatically...' check box to save the setting.
5) Hit OK. If you don't actually want to download Firefox again, just cancel the download.
That's it. All .dmg files should now open automatically.
Troubleshooting
If that doesn't seem to work right, then go to Firefox -> Preferences -> Downloads and click on the 'View & Edit Actions...' button. Look for DMG, click on it, click 'Change Action...' and choose 'Open them with this application' and browse to DiskImageMounter again. This will clear up any confusion within Firefox but you must perform the steps above first or else you can't even get DMG into the list.
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