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Weirdness with desktop disk icons.

2013 MAC PRO running Monterey v12.2


On desktop i have 6 different disk drives showing icons and volume names, 3 of them have large circle showing outside the icon lower left corner. what does this mean?


Mac Pro, macOS 12.2

Posted on Jan 27, 2022 7:03 PM

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Posted on Jan 27, 2022 7:25 PM

This looks like a .dmg file for an app with a similar name.


If you installed/downloaded an app outside of the app store, it will be in ".dmg" format which has a drive icon. If you already installed the app or no longer using these ".dmg" files, you can move it to trash.

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Weirdness with desktop disk icons.

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