How to open a iso file on Mac
A document that has the extension iso, that is, whose name ends in .iso, is a disk image that can contain, for example, an operating system so that you can install it on your computer or in a partition of it. Opening this type of file is easy on Apple computers. To help you with your computer issues, in .com we explain step by step how to open an iso file on Mac.
Steps to follow:one
Here we have the iso file that we want to open on Mac. We see that it has a very large size, more than 700 MB, so we understand that it must be the image of an operating system.
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By placing the cursor on the file and pressing right button, we can see the programs recommended by Mac to open the iso file . Of those that appear in the list we will choose the following ones:
- Disk Utility
- Disk Image Mounter
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The first option to open the iso file on Mac that we choose is Disk Utility. This will allow us to perform some operation with the image, how to verify it or try to repair it if it was damaged.
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However, to mount the disk what we have to use is Disk Image Mounter. When you open the iso file on Mac with this application, the disk will be mounted directly without having to take any further steps. Thus, the route underlined in the photograph indicates that the disk is already mounted and we can see its contents.
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When the image is mounted, we will see how we have already created an icon that identifies in the operating system of Mac that the file in question is a disk. Following these simple steps you can open an iso file on Mac . Note that the two programs we have used are preinstalled on Mac OS X, so you will not have to download them from the Internet.
