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Error creating disk image using hdutil

I'm trying to build dmg of .app file using following hdutil command: hdiutil create -srcfolder /Users/me/My.app My.dmg It works as expected as it creates My.dmg correctly. Problem started happening when I add two more files in to .app bundle…
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C++ interface for hdiutil on Mac

Does a system call or library exist that would allow my C++ code to use hdiutil on Mac OS X. My code needs to mount an available .dmg file and then manipulate what's inside.
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AppleScript throwing error on hdiutil command

I have the following code in an AppleScript file, which should mount a sparsebundle hosted on my network. Running this script throws an error on the hdiutil command: try mount volume "smb://192.168.1.1/sda2" end try do shell script "hdiutil…
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How to add software license terms to a Disk Image on macOS 11.0 Big Sur without the hdiutil flatten and unflatten verbs

On Mac, I am trying to add software license terms to a disk image file which the user will have to agree to before mounting the disk image. I used to be able to do this using the hdituil's flatten and unflatten verbs along with Rez (similar to how…
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-pubkey option in hdiutil

I have written a shell script that creates an encrypted sparsebundle disk image. I want to add a pubkey to the sparsebundle, but the option -pubkey (which is documented by Apple) is getting rejected when I add it to the shell script, or even when I…
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The `appdmg` tool fails quite often in Mac OSX 10.15

I am using appdmg https://www.npmjs.com/package/appdmg to create dmg. In OSX 10.15 it is failing quite often, I get the following error Error: Command failed: hdiutil detach /Volumes/MyAppName hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk2" - Resource busy What…
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Programmatically hiding many files when creating hybrid iso with hdiutil

I'm trying to script the creation of a hyrbid (iso/joliet/hfs) iso with hdiutil. I can, for example, build an iso that hides things on the mac side like so: hdiutil makehybrid -o foo.iso -hfs -joliet -iso -hide-hfs "{foo/bar.txt,foo/other.rtf}"…
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hdiutil: create failed - error -5342

I could successfully use hdiutil for creating a dmg file on my local El Capitan box, but it's failed with on OS X 10.9.5 of Travis CI with the error hdiutil: create failed - error -5342 The command used to creating image is hdiutil create -ov…
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Calculating hdiutil's compression ratio

In my app I'm using Apple's hdiutil command line utility to create compressed disk images (DMGs) of folders/volumes. Is there any way to calculate the compressed size of a given source path? I've already checked in the man pages, nothing there.
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Pipe a password from echo to hdiutil with objective-c

I´m struggling to learn obj-C and could use some help. I´m writing a "command line tool" to create a encrypted DMG and then safely delete the included files. When hdiutil creates the DMG it asks for a password for the encryption and I´m trying to…
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Issue with curl downloading corrupt DMG images

I'm trying to create an automated way to download multiple applications and install them, and I seem to be having trouble at the first hurdle. I am able to download and install .pkg files with no issue, but when it comes to .dmg files I'm getting an…
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Mounting a loop device on macOS in C

How do you mount a loop device (similar to hdiutil attach) on XNU / Darwin in C? Specifically I'm looking for functionality that would be in linux/loop.h, but on XNU. ( I'm going to be doing this on iOS, don't ask ;) )
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Using Process to Create a DMG with hdiutil

I'm having a play with Process() and trying to get it to create a DMG on my Desktop. The code I'm trying is: func terminal(_ args:String...) -> integer_t{ print(args) let task = Process() let dataPipe = Pipe() let errPipe = Pipe() task.launchPath…
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how to properly use hdutils to create a DMG on a (Travis) OSX VM

Hello I have a script that creates a MacOSX image and then copies stuff to it. The script was tested and worked fine until I tried to implement it in a Travis build. This is where things get interesting. The bit of code that is of interest is as…
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Can I modify a disk image while it is open, but not "save changes"?

I have a script where I create a disk image of an SD card using hdiutil and then mount that disk image. I then write extended attributes to the files inside using xattr and important them into a program. Is there any way I can reverse those xattr…
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