How To Reduce Dmg File Size
I played with this a little with a test .dmg file similar to yours. There may be a problem with Disk Utility's Resize function, but you can work around it.
Resizing the .dmg image file and resizing its contained partition are separate procedures. You can see them both if you click on the little triangle in Disk Utility's Resize window:
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After doing this, you see the following. The button to resize both the image and the partition is selected by default, which is what you want:
Another way to reduce the size of an image is to compress the image. There are two types of compression: lossless and lossy. Lossless compression will reduce the size of the image without losing a single pixel of the original file. Lossy means that some data will be lost. Finally, the picture format also makes a big difference in the size of the file. Re: how to reduce dwg file size? I thought I was pretty nifty when it came to AutoCAD and it's 3D environment, regardless of the 3rd party platform. Then one day, as it relates to a large dwg when by all indicators it should not be, I ran into the answer. Mount the image by double-clicking the.dmg file, select the.dmg file (upper icon) in the left pane of disk utility, and click the Partition tab. I was then able to pull down the lower-right corner of the partition graphic to fill the entire space. This increased the size of the partition to the same size as the image file. I then clicked Apply.
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However after clicking the Resize button, my result was the same as yours - only the .dmg file was resized, not the contained partition.
To try to fix this, I did the following. Mount the image by double-clicking the .dmg file, select the .dmg file (upper icon) in the left pane of disk utility, and click the Partition tab. I was then able to pull down the lower-right corner of the partition graphic to fill the entire space.
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This increased the size of the partition to the same size as the image file. I then clicked Apply.
When I later checked the mounted partition in Get Info, it reported the new larger size of 5GB.
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Mar 18, 2012 4:33 AM