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Questions tagged [diskimage]

Use this tag for questions related with DiskImage, a tool to backup and restore partitions, entire harddisks, usb keys, floppy drives and (read-only) optical media on windows platforms.

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Google Compute Engine: what is the difference between disk snapshot and disk image?

I've been using both for my startup and to me, the functionality is the same. Until now, the instances I've been creating are only for computation. I'm wondering how GCE disk images and snapshots are different in terms of technology, and in which…
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Create DMG file

I am developing an application in Cocoa. I need to create a DMG file to install my application like Adium (which provides a nice UI to drag the app file to Application folder). Is there a tool for this?
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"Beautifying" an OS X disk image

When I downloaded Skype, I noticed that, in place of a normal "disk image" icon, there was a custom icon, and when I double clicked on the icon, the window used a colorful image as the background, prompting me to drag the skype icon into the…
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Get the path of the .dmg from the mount point

I'm looking for a way to get the .dmg path of a mounted disk image with just its mount point. I want to write a "simple" Finder service that ejects the disk image and trashes the accompanying .dmg. The ejecting is trivial, but I'm at a loss as to…
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Could not find developer disk image stack overflow xcode 7.2, iOS 9.3.1

After updating my devcie to iOS 9.3.1 Xocde giving "could not find developer disk image". I am using xcode 7.2. Please help.
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Windows C# implementation of linux dd command

I'm writing a C#.Net app to run on windows that needs to take an image of a removable disk and chuck it onto a Linux Live USB. The Live USB is the inserted into the target machine and boots, on start up it runs a script which uses the dd command…
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c# - How can I extract a FAT Disk Image?

I am actually trying to extract a Fat Disk Image with DiskUtils but I am not getting the correct file names... I get "\TURNER~3\TOPPER~1.P~1" in place of "\TURNEROVER\TOPPERSHEATH.PPTX" FatFileSystem FatImg = new FatFileSystem(MS); //MS = Fat Image…
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Encrypted volume automounting in Mac OS X

I've had a need to create an encrypted volume on my mac for the company source code. The requirements are not terribly stringent: If someone can log into the machine as me, they win, but otherwise, they should lose. With that set of requirements,…
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Error loading IPython Jupyter notebook:

I have an error while loading IPython Jupyter notebook. Also errors occur on the shell. Is there anyone who could help me for solving these errors? Errors which occur on the shell: Unhandled error in API request DatabaseError: database disk image…
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Is it possible to rename a sparsebundle volume label without mounting/renaming/unmounting/mounting?

I know that the following will work: hdiutil attach old.sparsebundle -mountroot . diskutil rename old_label new_label hdiutil detach old_label hdiutil attach old.sparsebundle -mountroot . This results in old_label being mounted as new_label, but…
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Adobe Creative Suit 5 (CS5.5) installation on Mac OS Sierra

I got a new MacBook Pro running Mac OS Sierra and tried to install Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 on it, which I already had running on my old MacBook Pro. I downloaded the package directly from the Adobe web page, but when running the Install.app from…
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Determine if a Volume is a Disk Image (DMG) from code

From Objective C (or Swift), I need to determine if a mounted volume is a Disk Image (mounted from a .dmg file). Similar questions led me to NSURL Volume Property Keys, but none of them seem to give the type/protocol of the volume. However, I can…
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Creating customized .dmg files upon download

I want to distribute a cross-platform application for which the executable file is slightly different, depending on the user who downloaded it. This is done by having a placeholder string somewhere in the executable that is replaced with something…
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cannot see source tree in android.dmg.sparseimage in mac osx

After syncing the android source code tree in a dynamic extendable disk image (android.dmg.sparseimage) in mac osx (10.6.7), I cannot see anything in there. However the diskimage size has changed to 3.99GB meaning that disk image contains the source…
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svn returns "Invalid control character '0x0d' in path 'Icon\015'" when trying to add Mac custom icon file

I have a project that creates a disk image and would like to use a custom icon for the loaded volume. I have a .VolumeIcon.icns file that looks great, but to make Finder use it, I've had to include an empty file named Icon^M (Icon\r, Icon). My…
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