Is it possible that one has to CREATE the file MyDiskImage.dmg before  
one can ATTACH items such as a user folder to it? That might explain  
why I'm getting the "no such file" error message.

Regards,

Chuck

On Jan 15, 2006, at 4:13 PM, John Delacour wrote:

> At 3:16 pm -0700 15/1/06, Chuck Pelto wrote:
>
>> On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote:
>>
>>> Do shell script "hdiutil attach '/Users/MyName/Documents/ 
>>> MyDiskImage.dmg'-readonly"
>>
>> This syntax does not seem to work very well.
>>
>> I've used '/Users/whatgoesformyname/Documents/TestDiskImage.dmg'- 
>> readonly and I get error messages about "no such file".
>>
>> The naming of the path IS correct.
>
>
> Are you _sure_?  It works in every case for me so long as the path  
> is right.  Are you sure you're not _both_ escaping spaces _and_  
> enclosing in quotes.  You can do one or the other but not both, and  
> since you don't tell us what your correct path is, it's impossible  
> to say what's wrong.
>
>
> do shell script¬
>    "cd; hdiutil attach -readonly 'Downloads_060101/Eudora 6.2.3.dmg'"
>
> OR
>
> do shell script ¬
>    "cd; hdiutil attach -readonly Downloads_060101/Eudora\\ 6.2.3.dmg"
>
> JD
>