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Apple Disk iMaGe file format
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How to mount big .dmg in small HD?
The command sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/ubuntu/ntfsDisc/sda.hfs.dmg doesn't create a mountable dmg file! … So sda.hfs.dmg neither contains a valid file system (parts of the file could be extracted to contain one though) nor does it behave like a typical dmg. Instead it's a raw (data) file. …
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message: drag dmg file to applications folder keeps repeating
Double-click the dmg file. A new window should open or it is already open. … If you have been successful starting the application, unmount the image and delete the dmg file. …
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Do I have to keep the .dmg files on my computer?
They are distributed inside an .dmg.
To properly "install" them just open the .dmg and copy the app file to /Applications or /Applications/Utilities. … If the .dmg contains such a soft link just drop the app on it (like indicated by the grey arrow in the screenshot above). …
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How to open an encrypted dmg file in Windows?
According to the website HFSExplorer can open and read encrypted dmg images.
HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images. … HFSExplorer can also read most .dmg / .sparsebundle disk images created on a Mac, including zlib / bzip2 compressed images and AES-128 / AES-256 encrypted images. …
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Use mdfind to identify all encrypted dmg?
Spotlight just doesn't have sufficient metadata to differentiate the filesystem choices stored inside a DMG. … The proper command to check if a specific image file is encrypted is hdiutil isencrypted /path/to/dmg
Example:
host:~ user$ hdiutil isencrypted /Users/user/Downloads/test.dmg
Output:
encrypted: YES …
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Changing icon of a mounted disk image
To add a custom icon to the mounted volume of your dmg file, you first have to convert it to a sparsebundle or at least to a r/w dmg:
hdiutil convert -format UDSB -o /path/to/output/image /path/to/source …
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Do files copied to an encrypted disk image (dmg) encrypt themselves?
It depends on your viewpoint: a file written to an encrypted disk image is immediately written encrypted to the HDD/SSD where the disk image resides.
Since the file system of the unlocked disk image …
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OS X 10.11 Disk Utility, encrypted dmg password and keychain
Using Disk Utility (in El Capitan) you won't be asked at all to save the password to a keychain while creating the encrypted dmg. … But after unmounting and reopening the newly created encrypted dmg you will be asked to enter the password and the option to save it to the keychain will be shown: …