Someone sent me a .dmg file with documents inside. That is a Mac disk image and I am on Windows with no Mac available. How do I get the files out of a DMG on Windows?
How to extract a DMG file on Windows?
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Andrew Jackson September 17, 2019
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DMG is Apple's disk image format, but Windows tools can read it.
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Easiest: 7-Zip. Right click the DMG, 7-Zip, Extract Here. It reads most DMG images including compressed ones and pulls the files straight out.
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7-Zip chokes on it: a dedicated DMG extractor or converter turns the DMG into an ISO or extracts contents directly, handling the encrypted and HFS+ variants 7-Zip sometimes misses.
If the DMG is a Mac application installer rather than documents, the contents will not run on Windows anyway, but document DMGs extract fine.
7-Zip extract here worked first try, documents all present. Solved.