Create Disk Image

Summary: Demonstrates how to create a disk image using AppleScript.
Requires: DropDMG 3.0
Last Modified: 2019-10-02

Description

This script shows how to create disk images using DropDMG. See also the examples in Saved Settings Droplet.

tell application

 "DropDMG"

set _folder to POSIX file

 "/Users/<username>/MyFolder"

-- Use the default options.

create from file _folder

-- Specify options directly.

create from file _folder format zlib compressed with append version number

-- Specify options via a configuration.

create from file _folder configuration name

 "My Config"

-- AppleScript has a default timeout of 2 minutes; increase this for large disk images

with timeout of 60 * 10 seconds -- 10 minutes

create from file _folder

end timeout

end tell