FreeDMG Universal Binary

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Version: 0.5.7b || Release Date: 2008-07-20 || License: GPL Developer: Kelley Computing

Drag and drop disk image creation.

FreeDMG is one of the most powerful and easy to use disk imaging program available for Mac OS X. With this software it is possible to quickly perform disk imaging on the fly. Both the program's window, and the dock icon can be used for drag-and-drop imaging. There many image formats that that can be chosen (UDZO, UDCO, etc.). FreeDMG can make internet enabled disk images for distribution to Macs as well as ISO/Joliet hybrid images for cross-platform delivery. Verbose preferences, and a built-in log window help users hide/display additional information about the imaging process.

Gain easy access to the many options available for creating and manipulating disk images in Mac OS X with FreeDMG. From the hidden "resize" function of hdiutil to the adjustable compresion levels available for the UDZO format, this software attempts to unveil it all. Users have the option to overwrite exising files, and can choose to quit the program automatically after creating an image on launch. It is possible to encrypt images (password protect) with the click of a button.

With FreeDMG you can attach beautiful html/rtf software license agreements to disk images. This software is currently the best way to add SLAs to disk images for multi-lingual distribution. The license creation process in FreeDMG prevents character loss for all 2-byte languages.

Tags: dmg , utilities , compression

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by norz, 2008-05-17

to get more information about the supported dmg formats (eg: spare, zlib), check hdiutil documentation:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/hdiutil.1.html

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by kelleycomputing, 2007-09-22

FreeDMG has been updated - bug fixes have been applied to correct the error mentioned here regarding bzip2.

Please assist in product development by submitting these comments to the developer at http://www.kelleycomputing.net/contact

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by arundel, 2007-03-15

@el_cravito
Sounds like we have the same setup. I've just tried it again, and it undoubtedly is not working reliably for me when using bzip2 compression, regardless of the method to create an archive (drag-drop, create new from files...), where the files originate from, or where they are saved to. The log output most often (3 out of 5 times) displays the command-line help switches for mkdmg, version 0.1.6.3.

Using any other compression besides bzip2 seems to work fine.

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by el_cravito, 2007-03-11

@arundel:
I don't know what Mac and what version of OS X you're using.
But FreeDMG (v. 0.5.4b) works perfectly with both files and folders on my Intel-based iMac, running Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.8).
No error messages here. It works as it supposed to do.

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by arundel, 2007-03-08

This seems to be a delightful GUI wrapper around a command-line utility (or two?) Unfortunately every other file I attempt to drop (documents and/or folders) causes an error, and the log simply displays the command-line help screen, or a confusing terminal message.

The author seems too busy to maintain active support or current help files. I'd say it wins hands down in usability vs. DropDMG, but if it don't work it don't work. I'm now leaning towards a combination of 7zX and FileStorm. It's hard to expect one app to do it all. :-)