Huge .dmg File in Library

I've got a .dmg file, same name as my .mac account name, sitting in my users/library/mirrors/001b639659db folder: patrickfifth.dmg
It is 20GB in size! I tried to throw it away and it says it is in use.
Any idea what this is and why it showed up?
Thanks.

That would be because you have turned on mirroring for your iDisk. Open your .Mac preferences in System Preferences, click on the iDisk tab and turn off mirroring the iDisk. If the mirrored file doesn't get deleted automatically you can safely delete it after you've turned off iDisk mirroring.

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Hi, my harddrive is full, after some research I found a huge file with my .mac name and a dmg extention in Users/Mymac/Library/Mirrors/0016cb86bbb3. What is it? Can I delete this file?
Thanks, Marck

Welcome to the Forums!
That file is the mirror for your .Mac iDisk storage. The account size limits were increased 10-fold yesterday, so your iDisk is now 5 GB instead of 500 MB.
This file is synched to your iDisk so you should not just delete it. You can reduce the size of your iDisk in your .Mac account settings. Or, you can turn off synching, reboot, then you can delete the Mirrors folder (but you'll no longer have a local copy of what's on your iDisk).
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My girlfriend's Powerbook has been acting up for a while now, and we still can't seem to get it working properly.
One day, her Adobe programs just stopped working. Tried several things, but nothing worked and she ended up reinstalling OSX. That fixed the problem, but then she noticed she could no longer open DMG files. Accordingly, she tried to run Disk Utility but then found that it would always crash when trying to open.
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PS. I can open DMG files for her using MagicISO (I'm on a PC), but it's a bit of a pain transferring those larger files to her.
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What files did you try deleting? If you don't know what a file does or why you're messing around with it, you shouldn't; that's just asking for trouble.
Let's assume for the moment that you have a corrupted preferences file. To find out, go to Users/Library/Preferences and locate the com.apple.DiskUtility.plist file and drag it to the Desktop. Now relaunch Disk Utility and see if the problem continues. If not, then use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions, and then you can Trash the file on your Desktop.
You should also use your OS X install disc to boot the system and use Disk Utility to Repair Disk, to see if there are any problems. If it reports any errors that it can fix, keep running it until no more are reported.
If there's an error that it cannot fix, stop using your system immediately and make a backup of everything; then get a disk utility such as DiskWarrior to see if it can fix your drive. If your drive cannot be repaired, you will need to replace the internal drive and restore from your backup (if you have one).
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Maybe just corrupted Disk Utility preferences ...
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
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Are you referring to this specific file?
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Last night I saw the little icon in the system tray saying an update to Adobe Reader was ready to be installed.
I clicked it to allow the install.
Things seemed to go OK (on my Windows XP Pro system), although very slowly, and it finally got to copying files.
It seemed to still be doing something and was showing that it was copying file icudt40.dll. It still displayed the same thing ten minutes later.
I went to bed, and this morning it still showed that it was copying icutdt40.dll.
There is no "Cancel" button, so this morning I had to stop the install through Task Manager.
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There doesn't seem to be much point to creating log files that are too big to be read.
The update did manage to remove the Adobe Reader X that was working on my machine, so now I can no longer read PDF files.
Maybe I should go back Adobe Reader 9.
Reader X never worked very well.
Sometimes the menu bar showed up, sometimes it didn't.
PDF files at the physics e-print archive always loaded with page 2 displayed first. And if you forgot to disable the look-ahead capability, you could get banned from the e-print archive site altogether.
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Hi Ankit,
Thank you for your e-mail.
Yesterday afternoon I deleted the > 2 GB AdobeARM.log file and the > 4.194 GB
MSI38934.LOG file.
So I can't upload them. I expect I would have had a hard time doing so
anyway.
It would be nice if the install program checked the size of the log files
before writing to them and gave up if the size was, say, three times larger
than some maximum expected size.
The install program must have some section that permits infinite retries or
some other way of getting into an endless loop. So another solution would be
to count the number of retries and terminate after some reasonable number of
attempts.
Something had clearly gone wrong and there was no way to stop it, except by
going into the Task Manager and terminating the process.
If the install program can't terminate when the log files get too big, or if
it can't get out of a loop some other way, there might at least be a "Cancel"
button so the poor user has an obvious way of stopping the process.
As it was, the install program kept on writing to the log files all night
long.
Immediately after deleting the two huge log files, I downloaded and installed
Adobe Reader 10.1 manually.
I was going to turn off Norton 360 during the install and expected there
would be some user input requested between the download and the install, but
there wasn't.
The window showed that the process was going automatically from download to
install.
When I noticed that it was installing, I did temporarily disable Norton 360
while the install continued.
The manual install went OK.
I don't know if temporarily disabling Norton 360 was what made the difference
or not.
I was happy to see that Reader 10.1 had kept my previous preference settings.
By the way, one of the default settings in "Web Browser Options" can be a
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When I upgraded from Reader 9 to Reader 10.0.x in April, I ran into a
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I routinely read the physics e-prints at arXiv.org (maintained by the Cornell
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I had to figure out why I was automatically banned from arXiv.org, change my
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banned], and then exchange e-mails with the site administrator to regain
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When I try to access iTunes I get 'The file "iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes.' But when I try to download iTunes I get error (-42408)...help please.

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Did you uninstall iTunes 11 and replace it with iTunes 10.7? If so, you'll need to go through a few steps to put things right:
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Hi mrtn87,
welcome to Discussions!
/System/Library/CoreServices/BOMArchiveHelper.app opens .zip files,
and
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If you have OnyX, you can try running the "Reset LaunchServices Database" and "Reset links between documents and applications" tasks, see if the problem disappears.
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Software Update Crashes and reads:
Date/Time: 2006-09-25 09:55:33.350 -0700
OS Version: 10.4.7 (Build 8J135)
Report Version: 4
Command: Software Update
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Parent: WindowServer [74]
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Build Version: 197
Project Name: SoftwareUpdate
Source Version: 1350000
PID: 305
Thread: Unknown
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Memory Module: SODIMM0/J25LOWER, 512 MB, DDR SDRAM, PC2700U-25330
Memory Module: SODIMM1/J25UPPER, 512 MB, DDR SDRAM, PC2700U-25330
AirPort: AirPort Extreme, 404.2 (3.90.34.0.p16)
Modem: Jump, , V.92, Version 1.0,
Bluetooth: Version 1.7.3f4, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Built-in Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: TXN,PCIXXXX-00, cardbus, PC Card
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123,
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USB Device: iPod, Apple, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Bluetooth HCI, , Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: USB Device, , Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
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Date/Time: 2006-09-25 09:56:06.845 -0700
OS Version: 10.4.7 (Build 8J135)
Report Version: 4
Command: Safari
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Parent: WindowServer [74]
Version: 2.0.4 (419.3)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: WebBrowser
Source Version: 4190300
PID: 313
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Symbol not found: __ZN3KJS9ObjectImpC2Eb
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/JavaScriptCor e.framework/Versions/A/JavaScriptCore
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Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, ATY,RV360M11, AGP, 64 MB
Memory Module: SODIMM0/J25LOWER, 512 MB, DDR SDRAM, PC2700U-25330
Memory Module: SODIMM1/J25UPPER, 512 MB, DDR SDRAM, PC2700U-25330
AirPort: AirPort Extreme, 404.2 (3.90.34.0.p16)
Modem: Jump, , V.92, Version 1.0,
Bluetooth: Version 1.7.3f4, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Built-in Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: TXN,PCIXXXX-00, cardbus, PC Card
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123,
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USB Device: iPod, Apple, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Bluetooth HCI, , Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: USB Device, , Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
To top it all off, I can open an Internet Explorer Browser, attempt to download updates, or programs for reinstallation but when I try and open the .dmg files it tells me that the device not cofigured.
I have NO external drives hooked up. I AM connected to power.
Any help?

You seem to have found the thread that is used for this:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5744088#5744088
Closing this one for now.
thanks,
Ignacio

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My mistake... DiskImageMounter
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-mj
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Relaunch Safari.
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