On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >> ....how do I determine the size of the disk image I need to create? > > You can use 'du' to see the disk usage of your source folder. I > would add some margin of safety to account for file system overhead > (better safe than sorry). > > Use the -k option to get it in kilobytes. Uh, I don't recall if > that's in 1000s or 1024s. On the other hand, this -srcfolder param looks promising. No need to do the calc, the system should already be able to do that. However, WHY is it that the Disk Utility is NOT AE-aware? This is a gross oversight on the part of the product manager. Chuck