Can't See Dmg Volume In Finder
Once the download is completed, the disk image may open by itself and mount a new volume which contains the Thunderbird application. If you do not see the new volume, double-click the Thunderbird dmg icon to open it. A Finder window appears, containing the Thunderbird application. Drag the Thunderbird icon to the Applications folder. In the Disk Utility app on your Mac, select a disk, volume or connected device in the sidebar. Choose File New Image, then choose “Image from device name ”. Enter a filename for the disk image, add tags if necessary, then choose where to save it. Enough is enough - how to make a dmg the way you expect it June 2008, Guy Hoffman here is the step-by-step instruction to making a dmg to distribute your software that will open in icon mode, with a background image, and symbolic links (aliases) to drop your file in.
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What is DMG file and what’s the purpose of it?
Advantages:
- Preserve bootable state of dmg
- Eliminate a space required to convert read-only dmg to read-write
- Add, edit, delete any items on dmg
- Less time consuming as compare to other approaches
Edit Read Only DMG
Step 1
Attach read-only dmg file using hdiutil