Stop special treatment of 'internet-enabled' disk images

Feb 18, '04 11:06:00AM

Contributed by: simX

I don't know about any of you, but I absolutely hate internet-enabled disk images. I do see the value in them when distributing software. I like to keep disk images sometimes, though, so I'd rather manually copy my own software to my apps folder. The problem is that you can't simply turn off internet-enabled disk images in Safari; you have to completely turn off the auto-opening of all "safe" files. That means things like Stuffit archives won't automatically expand, and I want those to always expand.

Well, a friend of mine who works at Apple let me know of this cool little preference that allows you to tell the Disk Copy Framework to completely ignore internet-enabled disk images and treat them like normal disk images. To do so, just type the following command into the Terminal:

  defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-idme true
Of course, to re-enable the processing of internet-enabled disk images, you just need to enter this command into the Terminal:

  defaults delete com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-idme
That's it! Another pretty simple but very hidden preference.

[robg adds: Two words -- Thank you!]

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