{"id":174,"date":"2010-06-29T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T13:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T18:13:06","slug":"dropdmg-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/dropdmg-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"DropDMG 3.0"},"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\/3.0\/dropdmg-icon@2x.png\" height=\"128\" width=\"128\" alt=\"DropDMG Icon\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/downloads\/DropDMG-3.0.dmg\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/store\">Buy DropDMG<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Version 3.0 of <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/\">DropDMG<\/a> is now available. This is a major update that\u2019s $24 for new users, $12 for previous DropDMG owners, and free for people who bought DropDMG 2.x on or after June 20, 2008. There\u2019s a 30-day fully-featured trial for new users and upgraders.<\/p>\n<p>This update includes the following new features and enhancements:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Highlights<\/dt>\n<dd><ul>\n<li>The user interface and disk imaging engine have been almost completely redesigned and rewritten to make DropDMG easier to use and more robust.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/preferences-layouts.png\" title=\"Preferences: Layouts\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Preferences: Layouts\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/preferences-layouts-thumb.png\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/layouts\">Layouts<\/a> feature gives developers a WYSIWYG editor to set the background picture, view options, and icon positions, making it easy to deploy Mac software to their users.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/new-blank-disk-image\">New Blank Disk Image\u2026<\/a> command lets you protect select folders using the same encryption technology as FileVault but without its drawbacks.<\/li>\n<li>Added support for the <tt>.sparsebundle<\/tt>, <tt>.sparseimage<\/tt>, and hybrid (<tt>.iso<\/tt>) disk image <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/format\">formats<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/dropdmg-window.png\" title=\"DropDMG Window\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"DropDMG Window\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/dropdmg-window-thumb.png\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/dropdmg-window\">DropDMG window<\/a> now has a customizable toolbar for quick access to commonly used commands.<\/li>\n<li>DropDMG can now create <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/making-a-bootable-devic\">device images of hard drives<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/verify-image\">Verify Image\u2026<\/a> command now works in the background and can verify a whole folder of disk images at once. You can also bulk-verify multiple encrypted disk images without having to keep re-entering the passphrase.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/activity-window.png\" title=\"Activity Window\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Activity Window\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/activity-window-thumb.png\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/activity-window\">Activity window<\/a> consolidates progress information into a single window, rather than having separate windows for each operation. Additionally, DropDMG now has progress bars for bulk operations, so that you can see the overall progress (e.g. folder 6 of 10) in addition to the progress for the current operations.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/mount-image\">Mount Image\u2026<\/a> command now works in the background and can mount multiple disk images at once. You can also bulk-mount encrypted disk images that share the same passphrase.<\/li>\n<li>Added the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/change-image-passphrase\">Change Image Passphrase\u2026<\/a> command, which makes it much faster to change the passphrase of an encrypted disk image.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/join-files\">Join Files\u2026<\/a> command lets you recombine files that have been split into <tt>.001<\/tt>, <tt>.002<\/tt>, etc. files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Configurations<\/dt>\n<dd><ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/preferences-configurations.png\" title=\"Preferences: Configurations\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Preferences: Configurations\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/preferences-configurations-thumb.png\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/configurations\">Configurations<\/a> are now editable, and the <strong>Configurations<\/strong> window has been merged into the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/preferences\">Preferences<\/a> window.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/format\">Formats<\/a> pop-up menu has been reorganized and provides more information about the different formats and which versions of the OS they work with.<\/li>\n<li>Added support for 256-bit AES <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/encryption\">encryption<\/a>, which the NSA rates as secure enough for TOP SECRET level documents.<\/li>\n<li>Added the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/optimize-for-restores\">Optimize for restores<\/a> option.<\/li>\n<li>Added the <strong>Sizes<\/strong> pop-down menu, which makes it easy to select common sizes for disk image <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/segments\">segments<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Show Passphrase<\/strong> button lets you check the passphrase for a configuration without having to re-type it.<\/li>\n<li>The dialogs for the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/new-from-folder-file\">New from Folder\/File\u2026<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/convert-image-archive\">Convert Image\/Archive\u2026<\/a> commands now have pop-up menus to select which configuration to use.<\/li>\n<li>The destination and names prompts have been combined into a single dialog.<\/li>\n<li>If the chosen destination folder is not available (e.g. because its volume is offline) DropDMG now displays a caution icon in the pop-up menu and will report an error during the operation, rather than silently changing to <strong>Next to Source<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>When choosing a configuration in the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/dropdmg-window\">DropDMG window<\/a> or from the Dock menu, you can hold down the Option key to open the configuration for editing.<\/li>\n<li>Configurations are now stored as individual <tt>.plist<\/tt> files, rather than in DropDMG\u2019s preferences file, so it\u2019s easier to exchange them with other users and they work better with Time Machine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Optimizations<\/dt>\n<dd><ul>\n<li>Creating encrypted disk images is faster and requires less temporary disk space.<\/li>\n<li>Other types of operations can now run while DropDMG is waiting for a blank optical disc to be inserted.<\/li>\n<li>Improved the queuing of bulk operations to reduce disk contention and increase performance.<\/li>\n<li>DropDMG now runs as a 64-bit application under Mac OS X 10.6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Log<\/dt>\n<dd><ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/dropdmg-window-detail-drawer.png\" title=\"DropDMG Window: Log Detail Drawer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"DropDMG Window: Log Detail Drawer\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/dropdmg-window-detail-drawer-thumb.png\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/dropdmg-window\">DropDMG window<\/a> now has a drawer that shows detailed information about the selected log entry.<\/li>\n<li>You can Control-click on log entries to perform operations on their files.<\/li>\n<li>Log entries are now posted as <a href=\"http:\/\/growl.info\">Growl<\/a> notifications. If an operation has succeeded, clicking on the Growl notification will reveal the destination file in the Finder (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocoatech.com\/pf.php\">Path Finder<\/a>). If the operation has failed, clicking on the notification reveals the log entry in DropDMG.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/preferences-advanced.png\" title=\"Preferences: Advanced\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Preferences: Advanced\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/preferences-advanced-thumb.png\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/remove-log-entries\">Remove log entries<\/a> preference lets you set DropDMG to auto-delete old log entries after a specified amount of time.<\/li>\n<li>It is now possible to delete individual log entries manually.<\/li>\n<li>The log is now displayed as a table rather than a block of text.<\/li>\n<li>The log can now be set to only show errors.<\/li>\n<li>The log is now stored as a Core Data database rather than in DropDMG\u2019s preferences file. This makes reading and updating it faster and reduces DropDMG\u2019s memory usage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>License Agreements<\/dt>\n<dd><ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/preferences-licenses.png\" title=\"Preferences: Licenses\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Preferences: Licenses\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/preferences-licenses-thumb.png\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>The separate windows for the license agreements list and the language editors have been combined into the new <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/licenses\">Licenses<\/a> tab of the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/preferences\">Preferences<\/a> window. The steps for making a new localized license are much clearer now.<\/li>\n<li>Licenses can now customize the prompt text and button names that are presented to the end-user.<\/li>\n<li>Added additional languages for localized licenses: Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/license-agreement-dialog.png\" title=\"Software License Agreement\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Software License Agreement\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/license-agreement-dialog-thumb.png\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a>License agreements are now stored as individual files, rather than in DropDMG\u2019s preferences file. This allows for <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/sharing-licenses-and-la\">sharing<\/a>, storing them under version control, editing using external applications, and better Time Machine backups.<\/li>\n<li>Added <strong>Spelling and Grammar<\/strong>, <strong>Substitutions<\/strong>, and <strong>Transformations<\/strong> to the <strong>Edit<\/strong> menu, and also added menu commands for finding and replacing.<\/li>\n<li>You can hold down the Option key when choosing a license in the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/configurations\">Configurations<\/a> tab to open it for editing.<\/li>\n<li>The license agreement editor now localizes the display of the language names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Miscellaneous<\/dt>\n<dd><ul>\n<li>You can now choose whether DropDMG shows <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/temporary-options\">temporary options<\/a> by default or only when you hold down the Option key.<\/li>\n<li>Added the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/compact-image\">Compact Image\u2026<\/a> command, which reclaims free space from <tt>.sparseimage<\/tt> and <tt>.sparsebundle<\/tt> files.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/get-image-info.png\" title=\"Get Image Info\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Get Image Info\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/get-image-info-thumb.png\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/get-image-info\">Get Image Info\u2026<\/a> command now displays the information in an outline rather than a block of text.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/custom-volume-icon\">Custom badged icons<\/a> for the mounted disk image volume are of much higher quality. The icon is now rendered at up to 512x512 pixels, and there\u2019s a separate optimized version for each size (rather than scaling down the full-size rendering).<\/li>\n<li>The <tt>dropdmg<\/tt> command-line tool now has a <tt>man<\/tt> page.<\/li>\n<li>File and segment sizes are now displayed using base 10 megabytes, for consistency with the Mac OS X 10.6 Finder.<\/li>\n<li>Remembers between launches which windows were open.<\/li>\n<li>DropDMG now auto-updates its <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/command-line-tool\">command-line tool<\/a> when you first launch a new version of the application.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/automator.png\" title=\"Automator\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Automator\" src=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/images\/3.0\/automator-thumb.png\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a>The <strong>Create Disk Image\/Archive<\/strong> Automator action is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.<\/li>\n<li>Added <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/esoteric-preferences\">Esoteric Preferences<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Worked around an OS limitation that could prevent DropDMG from converting a very large disk image into segments.<\/li>\n<li>Properly handles composed characters when truncating filenames.<\/li>\n<li>Made various improvements to the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/software-update\">Software Update<\/a> user interface and engine.<\/li>\n<li>Improved the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/purchase\">Purchase<\/a> window to make it easier to understand how the trial period and serial numbers work.<\/li>\n<li>DropDMG now uses <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/mac\/library\/documentation\/Security\/Conceptual\/CodeSigningGuide\/Introduction\/Introduction.html\">Mac OS X code signing<\/a>, which should reduce the number of annoying keychain dialogs.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug where DropDMG would continue trying to burn an encrypted disk image after the user had failed to enter the proper passphrase.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug with non-ASCII names and the command-line tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Removed<\/dt>\n<dd><ul>\n<li>DropDMG 3.0 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/support#older-versions\">Older versions<\/a> for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.3 are still available.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Encoding<\/strong> option has been removed, since it\u2019s no longer particularly useful to create BinHex- or MacBinary-encoded disk images.<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for creating self-mounting <tt>.smi<\/tt> NDIF disk images, since all recent versions of the OS have built-in support for disk images.<\/li>\n<li>Removed the keyboard shortcut for DropDMG\u2019s command in the <strong>Services<\/strong> menu, since Command-Shift-D was appropriated by the OS. You can use the <strong>Keyboard<\/strong> pane of System Preferences to assign your own shortcut, if desired.<\/li>\n<li>Removed the option for making disk images auto-open. This is no longer necessary since Mac OS X can now auto-open disk images that do not have this option set, and this makes disk image creation much faster.<\/li>\n<li>Removed the <strong>Copy to Others<\/strong> button in the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/temporary-options\">temporary options<\/a> sheet, as this functionality is superseded by <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/configurations\">configurations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Removed the contextual menu and Dock menu items for changing image formats. This functionality is superseded by <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/configurations\">configurations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for creating and converting StuffIt archives.<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for creating ADC-compressed disk images. Zlib-compressed images are more efficient, and, due to other changes in Mac OS X\u2019s disk imaging engine, ADC images no longer provided any compatibility benefits.<\/li>\n<li>Removed the <strong>Fix Image\u2026<\/strong> command, since Mac OS X will now mount disk images regardless of whether they have the correct type and creator codes. The Control-drag shortcut has been reassigned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\/manual-ah\/verify-image\">Verify Image\u2026<\/a> command.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n\n<p>For more information, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/downloads\/manual\/DropDMGManual-3.0.pdf\">DropDMG Manual<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Buy DropDMG Version 3.0 of DropDMG is now available. This is a major update that\u2019s $24 for new users, $12 for previous DropDMG owners, and free for people who bought DropDMG 2.x on or after June 20, 2008. There\u2019s a 30-day fully-featured trial for new users and upgraders. 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