CRIPES!!!! Why in hades is that NOT indicated? I've been pouring over FILENAME and HDIUTIL and DIR and everywhere else I could think of and could not find THAT bit of VOODOO anywhere. Let's see now.... ...this all started about a tad after 2 am (local) and NOW we get it resolved. Nothing like wasting a day....eh? Thanks, though. Without your passing on that little known fact about a well known subject, I'd still be flounder about. Regards, Chuck On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Mark Lively wrote: > > hdiutil create -srcfolder /users/lively/Desktop/untitled\ folder/ / > Volumes/Mark\ HD/users/mark/desktop/test.dmg > > All drives and mounted volumes appear under the /Volumes directory. > On Jan 16, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > >> Next question.... >> >> What needs to be done in order to have the dmg file stored to a >> different volume? >> >> >> >> On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Mark Lively wrote: >> >>> The back slashs are because there is a space in Untitled Folder. >>> >>> you can put a back slash before a space to tell unix that you >>> want the space (or return or backslash to be part of the file name) >>> >>> The second backslash is because I wanted to put a backslash in >>> file name. >>> >>> Sorry my laziness confounded the issue. I just made a folder on >>> the desktop and then dragged it into terminal and ran the command. >>> >>> -Mark >>> Necessity is the mother of invention, but laziness is the father. >>> >>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Mark Lively wrote: >>>> >>>>> do shell script "hdiutil create -srcfolder /Users/lively/ >>>>> Desktop/untitled\\ folder/ /tmp/junk2.dmg" >>>> >>>> Where did this back-slashes come into the picture? None of the >>>> message traffic, heretofore, mentioned such. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Chuck >>>> >>> >> >> >