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