Okay.... ...how do I determine the size of the disk image I need to create? Regards, Chuck On Jan 15, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Mark Lively wrote: > Yes. > > Take a look at create option on hdiutil > > hdiutil create -s 50m ~/Desktop/test.dmg > > -Mark > > On Jan 15, 2006, at 9:55 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >