I have been using DropDMG for a particular project for several versions now. Today was the first time I tried to use 3.0.4 with this project. When I drag my source file onto DropDMG it begins to create the disk image as usual, but then fails with the following message:
Error The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -5000.)
afpAccessDenied: Insufficient access privileges for operation
Is either your source or destination folder on a network server? Also, it might help to check the Always run with root access option in the preferences.
Got it to work, I actually had to NOT check “Always run with root access” then all went fine. I did some reading on your forums and help and straight away checked that box…
Not running over any network or weird setup, and dropDMG within the applications folder.
I got it to work by UN-checking “Always run with root access” - though I have not tested the resulting image on other macs, it appears to have been created correctly on my mac.
Here is a possibly useful dump from the system console when I run it WITH root access:
Thanks for the additional information. I’m not entirely sure why creating the image with root access causes the problem, but I believe I’ve worked around it. Please contact me via e-mail to get a pre-release build of DropDMG.