Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-19 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 17 Jan 2009, at 21:02, Markus Spoettl wrote: Totally agreed, scripting the entire process would be wonderful. But: How does one go about scripting a template DMG creation that should open in a certain view mode in Finder (e.g. icon) using a defined icon size and defined icon locations,

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-19 Thread Chunk 1978
i'm really a big fan of DMG Canvas, and i'm surprised the developer is offering it as donationware, but unfortunately i can't use it... there seems to be a bug that will automatically set off internet enabled option (even if it's unchecked) when the .DMG is downloaded from my server, and there's

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-17 Thread Markus Spoettl
On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Michael Ash wrote: I highly recommend scripting the entire process. This is the kind of thing you want to be able to do by typing a single easy command, not have to slog through the whole process twice just because you forgot something the first time. (This won't be

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Markus Spoettl msappleli...@toolsfactory.com wrote: Totally agreed, scripting the entire process would be wonderful. But: How does one go about scripting a template DMG creation that should open in a certain view mode in Finder (e.g. icon) using a defined icon

.DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-16 Thread Chunk 1978
i'm manually creating a .DMG using Disk Utility... the process is that i create a template . DMG, make it look all pretty and stuff, then convert it to it's final . DMG... let's say now that the final . DMG is 20.2mb after it's been compressed/converted... oh, but i forgot to do something to a

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-16 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote: i'm assuming this has something to do with .trashes, but i don't have access to that hidden folder on the template so i can't go in and REALLY delete the original file that i want deleted... what can i do? Use Disk Utility to zero out the

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-16 Thread Chunk 1978
excuse my ignorance... but how can i do that? On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Nick Zitzmann n...@chronosnet.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote: i'm assuming this has something to do with .trashes, but i don't have access to that hidden folder on the template so i

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-16 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote: excuse my ignorance... but how can i do that? /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app - choose the mounted image - click the Erase tab - click the erase free space button - choose to zero out deleted files. When you do your conversion

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-16 Thread Chunk 1978
i though maybe it's because i recreated the .DMG without erasing anything to keep it down in size... so then made another one, deleted stuff, put new stuff on the .dmg and now i have the erase tab... but the Erase Free Space is grayed out... On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Chunk 1978

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-16 Thread Chunk 1978
oh... nevermind... sorry, i'm dumb... i was trying to erase free space on the .DMG and now the mounted volume... got it now... and thanks for your help :) On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Chunk 1978 chunk1...@gmail.com wrote: i though maybe it's because i recreated the .DMG without erasing

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Ash
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Chunk 1978 chunk1...@gmail.com wrote: i'm manually creating a .DMG using Disk Utility... the process is that i create a template . DMG, make it look all pretty and stuff, then convert it to it's final . DMG... let's say now that the final . DMG is 20.2mb after