On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> UPDATE: The following syntax seems to work
>
> hdiutil create -srcfolder /users/ mydata.dmg
>
> Why won't this allow me to set the destination path to something  
> other than my own user identity folder?
>
> Chuck
>
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:52 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:13 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:
>>
>>> On 16/1/06 9:06 PM, "John Delacour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Terrific!
>>>
>>> I thought so, too; thanks to the person who posted it to
>>> www.macosxhints.com.
>>
>> Okay.
>>
>> Based on what I was able to read in the new highly searchable PDF  
>> I've got, my syntax SHOULD BE....
>>
>> do shell script "hdiutil create -srcfolder '/Users/myname' '/ 
>> Desktop/MyData.dmg'"
>>
>> But I get an error of "hdiutil: create failed - Invalid argument"  
>> when I try that.
>>
>> do shell script "hdiutil create -srcfolder '/Users/myname' ~/ 
>> Desktop/MyData.dmg"
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chuck
>

hdiutil create -srcfolder /Users/lively/Desktop/untitled\ folder/ / 
tmp/junk.dmg

worked for me

as did

do shell script "hdiutil create -srcfolder /Users/lively/Desktop/ 
untitled\\ folder/ /tmp/junk2.dmg"

Surreally though...

Mark-Livelys-Computer:~ lively$ ls -la /tmp/
total 312
drwxrwxrwt   13 root      wheel    442 Jan 16 09:18 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 root      wheel    204 Jan 11 07:58 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 lively    wheel  69080 Jan 16 09:18 junk.dmg
-rw-r--r--    1 lively    wheel  72291 Jan 16 09:18 junk2.dmg


-Mark
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Garderners.