DropDMG versions

Create and burn the created disk image files to a DVD, CD, or Blu-ray.
3.6
Mar 14, 2024
3.4
Jul 22, 2016
Editorial review
rating
3.3
May 26, 2016
Review
3.2
Nov 7, 2012
Editorial review
rating
3.1
Oct 5, 2011
Editorial review
rating
3.0
Jul 2, 2010
Review

What's new

v3.6 [Oct 23, 2020]
- Updated the user interface for macOS 11 Big Sur:
- Redesigned the application icon.
- The main window uses the new inline title bar style, the toolbar defaults to icon-only mode and supports the new large icon style, and the toolbar icons have been updated.
- The Preferences window uses the new, centered toolbar style and has updated icons.
- Updated the "Custom volume icon" feature for Big Sur.
- Improved support for disk image formats.
- Improved the "dropdmg" command-line tool.
- Configurations now show a Gatekeeper badge on the icon when the disk image is code-signed.
- Various operations that used to require multiple passphrase prompts when dealing with an encrypted disk image now require only one.
- When encountering various kinds of file permissions errors, DropDMG will now recommend that you grant it Full Disk Access.
- Bug fixes.
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v3.4 [Jul 22, 2016]
- Worked around a bug in macOS 10.12.2 that caused a garbage character to be displayed in various pop-up menus.
- DropDMG no longer posts to Notification Center for operations that complete less than a minute after being queued. This should help make sure that the banners/alerts that you do see are genuinely useful.
- Made some changes to reduce the time it takes to open the Preferences window.
- Logging is more robust on macOS 10.12.
- Updated the German localization.

v3.2 [Nov 7, 2012]
- It is now possible to set (or override) layout variables from AppleScript or the command line. This is also useful when creating a disk image of non-application files; DropDMG would be unable to intuit the {$APP_BASENAME}, but you can still set it to whatever you want in your script and have it rendered into the layout.
- The HybridFSArgs esoteric preference lets you control which filesystems DropDMG uses for hybrid .iso disk images.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes creating a disk image failed if it contained a very large number of small files.
- Fixed a bug where .iso files would sometimes be owned by root instead of the user.
- Made various minor adjustments to the toolbar icons in the main window.
- Added Japanese localization.

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