on 03/04/19 14:58, Anne Keller-Smith at earthpigz at earthlink.net wrote: > app installed in the Applications folder, but there's still an icon > on the desktop that looks like a hard drive or a zip drive, that > doesn't want to be gotten rid of. > This may be one of the few times I am actually able to give a correct answer to a simple question. I believe what you have on your desktop is not the alias; it is the disk image which you downloaded. Whey you say "doesn't want to be gotten rid of", I assume that you cannot drag it to the Trash. If all this is true, the problem is that you cannot trash a disk image. You must "Eject" it instead. Select it and type cmd-E, or else select it and then pull down your FInder's File menu to Eject. You may also have an Eject button on your keyboard in the top right.