Mount Disk Image

Summary: Demonstrates how to mount a disk image using AppleScript.
Requires: DropDMG 3.2.5
Last Modified: 2019-10-02

Description

This script shows how to mount disk images using DropDMG. See also the documentation for the Mount Image… command.

tell application

 "DropDMG"

set _file to POSIX file

 "/Users/<username>/MyFolder"

-- Equivalent to double-clicking the .dmg file in the Finder

mount disk image _file

-- Disable checksum verification to make mounting large disk images faster.

mount disk image _file without verification

-- Disable owners to give yourself access to all the files.

mount disk image _file without file ownership

-- Directly specify passphrase for encrypted disk image.

mount disk image _file passphrase

 "the passphrase"

-- Use a configuration's stored passphrase (in the keychain). This way your passphrase is never stored in cleartext.

mount disk image _file configuration name

 "Configuration Name"

-- Mount the image inside the Documents folder instead of as a volume on the desktop.

set _mountLocation to POSIX file

 "/Users/<username>/Documents/"

mount disk image _file mount location _mountLocation

-- Mount a read-write disk image so that the original .dmg file is not modified; instead, changes are saved to an adjacent shadow file.

mount disk image _file with shadow file

end tell