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Re: hdiutil burn

Subject: Re: hdiutil burn
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:43:31 -0600

An update ...

I was under the impression that I had used a large sparseimage in last weeks burn successful tests with Disk Utility. I must have been mistaken. The sparseimage file I was using for testing was created as a 4.7 GB disk with only about 30MB of data in it. Disk Utility will not burn this to anything ... it's too big. I was using a sparseimage because I don't have to guess at the size of data before copying it. So, my hardware and software is OK and the problem is with the image files I was using.

And was this the cause of my earlier problems with hdiutil and drutil? Perhaps. I'm looking at work-arounds, but haven't found anything I'm happy with, yet.

Here's the problem with using .dmg or .sparseimage files to burn a disk: Before copying data into the image disk, you don't necessarily know how much data you have. It may be a small amount that can be appended to an existing CD, or it may fill a CD, or it may be appended to a DVD, or it could fill a DVD. But I have to know how much data there is, so I can make the size of the disk in the image file just big enough to hold the data. This makes disk burning a tedious job ... unless I can find a way to write code that will do it automatically at burn time. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Applescript-users mailing list (email@hidden) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: This email sent to email@hidden Follow-Ups: Re: hdiutil burn From: Ken Garland <email@hidden> Prev by Date: Re: Opening Finder windows in a dual monitor setup Next by Date: Re: hdiutil burn Previous by thread: Re: hdiutil burn Next by thread: Re: hdiutil burn Index(es): Date Thread