To find.dmg and.pkg files go to the Finder and in the upper right corner click on a search box. That is, in fact, a kind of archive that is opened with a virtual drive.
– otherwise known as an Apple Disk Image – and are similar to ISO files.ĭMG files – disk image files, that are executed in a virtual image of the mounted drive. As you may already know, installer files for macOS come with a DMG file extension /is-eclipse-dmg-an-installer/. Mac users often find their Downloads folder filled with disk images that they previously downloaded from the internet, files that – having already installed the apps – they forgot to delete after unmounting the image.