The subject says it all. I see this on multiple systems.
I configure a setting, and the layout, and both are gone after relaunch.
I added a document folder as a drag target, and it is not there on the DMG.
This has all worked for many macOS revs.
Do you mean in the Settings window in the DropDMG app?
That won’t work (the way Applications does) because every user’s Documents folder is at a different path.
So I just use an Alias to Documents? How do I make this work?
No. macOS simply doesn’t support that type of link. If you want to open the user’s Documents folder you would need a helper app or script.
An Alias worked.
- Create an alias of ~/Documents.
- Add it to the disk folder to be turned into DMG.
- From there, add it to the layout.
Worked at least once.
It will probably work on your Mac but not if you open the disk image on another Mac. (The folder and volume IDs and the path will all be different on someone else’s Mac, so the alias will break.)