(Tidbit: You can also encrypt your disk image here by using the “Encrypt” tab.)Ĥ.
Open Disk Utility on your Mac, either by accessing it by Spotlight or by navigating to “Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility”.
To create a Disk Image on your OS X system, simply follow the steps below:ġ. The server option is most useful if you want to encrypt your files so that no one else can access them. The original file you downloaded is called a “Disk Image.”ĭisk Images are indeed most useful for file distribution, but they can also be used to store files on your system, any external media or on a local network server. If you don’t know what a Disk Image is, remember the file you need to download whenever you choose to install some freeware software from the internet, such as Google Chrome? You need to click on the file, and then it “mounts.” From the opening window, you choose to install the program. These images imitate exactly the behaviours of optical disks such as DVDs, which is the reason they are commonly used by most developers worldwide to distribute downloadable installers for their programs/applications. The main mode for packaging program files for distributions and storage on OS X is Disk Images.
