I’ve tweaked my Downloads folder so that applications which are usually downloaded as disk images are automatically moved to another folder.

To do that, Take a look at my Video.

I attached a script to my Downloads folder as a folder action. First, I typed the following script into Script Editor:

[applescript]

on adding folder items to theFolder after receiving downloadFile
tell application “Finder”
repeat with theFile in downloadFile
if the name of theFile ends with “.dmg” then
move theFile to folder “THE_FOLDER_YOU_CREATED” of folder “YOUR_USER_NAME” of folder “Users” of startup disk
end if
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to

[/applescript]

I then saved it as MoveDmg.scpt in /Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts/ folder. I then created an DMG folder in my Home directory. After that, I right-clicked on my Downloads folder and selected More -> Enable Folder Actions. Right-clicking again, I selected More -> Attach a Folder Action, and chose my saved script in the Choose A File dialog box.

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