{"id":1604,"date":"2024-09-26T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2024-09-27T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T13:06:07","slug":"dropdmg-3-6-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/26\/dropdmg-3-6-8\/","title":{"rendered":"DropDMG 3.6.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"app-icon\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/dropdmg-icon@2x.png\" height=\"128\" width=\"128\" alt=\"DropDMG Icon\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/updating-from-a-previou\">Update<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/downloads\/DropDMG-3.6.8.dmg\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/store\">Buy DropDMG<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Version 3.6.8 of <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/\">DropDMG<\/a> is now available.<\/p>\n\n<p>DropDMG makes it easy to create a professional disk image for your app. Disk images pack entire folders or disks into a single compressed file, either for transport across the Internet or simply for backup or archival. They are Apple\u2019s preferred format for distributing Mac software and the only archive format whose contents you can directly access in the Mac Finder\u2014no extraction or third-party software required.<\/p>\n\n<p>Deliver your Mac app on a <tt>.dmg<\/tt> file with a <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/licenses\">software license agreement<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/custom-volume-icon\">custom volume icon<\/a>, and a precise <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/layouts\">icon layout<\/a> atop a Retina-optimized background picture. Customers can install simply by dragging and dropping the app onto the convenient <tt>Applications<\/tt> folder link. <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/signing\">Code-sign<\/a> your <tt>.dmg<\/tt> so that macOS knows it can be trusted after download.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/dropdmg-window-detail-drawer@2x.png\" title=\"DropDMG Window: Log Detail Drawer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"161\" alt=\"DropDMG Window: Log Detail Drawer\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/dropdmg-window-detail-drawer-thumb%402x.png\" height=\"129\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>This is a free update for owners of <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/dropdmg-3-0\/\">DropDMG 3.0<\/a> that includes the following enhancements:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Made various updates for macOS 15 and Xcode 16.<\/li>\n\t<li>Worked around a macOS issue that could cause disk image creation to fail with a file permissions error.<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/preferences-layouts@2x.png\" title=\"Settings: Layouts\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Settings: Layouts\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/preferences-layouts-thumb%402x.png\" height=\"119\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Worked around a macOS issue that could cause Finder to fail to save the view options or icon positions for a <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/layouts\">layout<\/a>.<\/li>\n\t<li>Improved DropDMG\u2019s error reporting to AppleScripts and to the command-line tool when a disk imaging operation fails.<\/li>\n\t<li>If macOS incorrectly reports that DropDMG is damaged when installing or updating the app, we now have a <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/download-fixer\/\">Download Fixer<\/a> tool to help.<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/activity-window@2x.png\" title=\"Activity Window\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Activity Window\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/activity-window-thumb%402x.png\" height=\"110\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Added <code>MaxJobs<\/code> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/esoteric-preferences\">esoteric preferences<\/a>. This makes it possible to control how many operations DropDMG performs simultaneously. Normally, DropDMG will let you queue as many operations as you want and will execute two simultaneously. This balances the desire to quickly finish the first operation while still allowing other operations to complete. For example, encrypting a small document that you want to e-mail would not have to wait until backing up an entire hard drive had finished. You can also set DropDMG to execute only one operation at a time (e.g. to speed things up if you want to queue many operations that use the same slow hard drive) or three or more (e.g. if you are using fast SSD storage and your Mac has lots of processor cores).<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/preferences-licenses@2x.png\" title=\"Settings: Licenses\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Settings: Licenses\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.6\/preferences-licenses-thumb%402x.png\" height=\"122\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Added <code>LayoutBackgroundFolderName<\/code> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/esoteric-preferences\">esoteric preferences<\/a>. This makes it possible to customize the name of the invisible folder where DropDMG stores the background picture file.<\/li>\n\t<li>Fixed a bug where DropDMG could incorrectly report a license agreement error when converting a disk image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>DropDMG 3.6.8 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15. Older <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/help\/version-history\">DropDMG versions<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/support#older-versions\">available<\/a> for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about DropDMG is available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/downloads\/manual\/DropDMGManual-3.6.8.pdf\">manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you enjoy using DropDMG, please take a moment to review it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/store\/mac-app-store\/dropdmg\">Mac App Store<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.producthunt.com\/posts\/dropdmg\">Product Hunt<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macupdate.com\/app\/mac\/7099\/dropdmg\">MacUpdate<\/a> or to mention it on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dropdmg\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/indieapps.space\/@dropdmg\">Mastodon<\/a>, Facebook, or your own site. We\u2019d really appreciate it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2024-09-26): DropDMG 3.6.8 has been submitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/store\/mac-app-store\/dropdmg\">Mac App Store<\/a> and is awaiting approval from Apple.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2024-09-27): DropDMG 3.6.8 is now available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/store\/mac-app-store\/dropdmg\">Mac App Store<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update Download Buy DropDMG Version 3.6.8 of DropDMG is now available. DropDMG makes it easy to create a professional disk image for your app. Disk images pack entire folders or disks into a single compressed file, either for transport across the Internet or simply for backup or archival. 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