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I could successfully use hdiutil for creating a dmg file for my program in Mountain Lion, but after upgrading to Yosemite (and after updating it to 10.10.1), when I execute

hdiutil create -srcfolder build/Thonny.app Thonny-0.2.5.dmg

I get following error:

hdiutil: create failed - error -5341

Verbose mode didn't reveal anything useful.

Folder build/Thonny.app contains a Python application.

Any idea what this error means and what to try next?

UPDATE: Looks like the number of files in my app affects the result. When I remove one of the files (doesn't matter which one), then the command is able to produce the result. Currently there are about 70 files and few folders under Thonny.app/Contents/MacOS

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  • What's the command you type ?
    – Thomas Ayoub
    Nov 18, 2014 at 13:13
  • Try to set a filesize
    – Thomas Ayoub
    Nov 18, 2014 at 13:30
  • @Thomas, no luck, "hdiutil create -size 200k -srcfolder build/Thonny.app Thonny-0.2.5.dmg" gives me "hdiutil: create failed - Operation not permitted"
    – Aivar
    Nov 18, 2014 at 13:45
  • And with a sudo ?
    – Thomas Ayoub
    Nov 18, 2014 at 13:57
  • Same result with sudo
    – Aivar
    Nov 18, 2014 at 14:01

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I had the same error -5341 and was able to work around it with the -megabytes option as suggested here.

hdiutil create -megabytes 130 Reassembly.dmg -srcfolder Reassembly

In this case the Reassembly directory is 107M and the resulting Reassembly.dmg is 97M. The -size 130m option did not work for me. My issue was intermittent - adding or removing one or two files would fix it or break it.

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  • I had a similar problem, but had to use -megabytes 900 instead of -megabytes 130. Note that I didn't try any intermediate values, but just wanted to choose a number that I was hoping was "large enough". With a value of 130, I got the message hdiutil: create failed - No space left on device
    – Ben Hocking
    Dec 15, 2015 at 19:49
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Looks like I found a workaround. If I do 

hdiutil create -srcfolder build Thonny-0.2.5.dmg

instead of 

hdiutil create -srcfolder build/Thonny.app Thonny-0.2.5.dmg

(ie provide the parent of the app folder instead of app folder itself), then it works.

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