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After downloading program "Hallmark Card Studio for Mac", it showed as a disk image. After dragging program logo to Application folder, supposedly it still showed disk image under applications. Did the complete program get installed?
Mac Studio, macOS 14.6
A disk Image is essentially a "drive inside a file". It is merely the enclosure in which the software was shipped.
What you want to see is the actual Application sitting inside your /Applications folder. If you see the entire disk image inside your Applications folder, you did not manage to install it properly.
The disk image is likely still on your drive, unless you deliberately deleted it. Once you see the Application in your Applications folder, you can generally delete the disk image. If you are REALLY cautious, you could launch the Application once to be sure it finished installing everything it needed out of the Disk Image, then delete the disk image to recover that space.
A disk Image is essentially a "drive inside a file". It is merely the enclosure in which the software was shipped.
What you want to see is the actual Application sitting inside your /Applications folder. If you see the entire disk image inside your Applications folder, you did not manage to install it properly.
The disk image is likely still on your drive, unless you deliberately deleted it. Once you see the Application in your Applications folder, you can generally delete the disk image. If you are REALLY cautious, you could launch the Application once to be sure it finished installing everything it needed out of the Disk Image, then delete the disk image to recover that space.
Some installations just involve copying an application file to the Applications folder on your startup disk. The disk images for those often have background graphics set, so that when you open (mount) the disk image, there are instructions telling you to drag the application (on the disk image) onto the Applications folder (more accurately, onto an alias that is set up to point to your startup disk's Application folder).
Others involve running an installer – and when you mount the disk image, you may see the installer application which yon need to run.
It is up to the developer which method they use.
Firefox has such a Drag-and-Drop installer pane. The large arrow is trying to tell you to Drag and Drop the application icon onto the alias to the /Applications folder in the same window:
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Doesn't sound correct, in my experience a program properly installed in the applications folder will be a .app file, while a disk image would end in .dmg
The OP should drag the disk image out of the applications folder and be able to double-click on the program disk image to properly install the program in the applications folder.
I agree with what Grant-Bennet-Adler says in his post.
Yes, a disk image under applications means the app was installed.
Hope it works! Great luck.
Installing disk image programs on Mac Studio
