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My .dmg file won't update the capacity when I delete files
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 648857" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>A DMG file is a virtual disk. And much like a hard disk, even though you remove the data from the disk, the capacity stays the same. Same thing with a DMG file - even empty, it still takes up the same amount of space. Here is an example - this is an empty DMG that was just created in Disk Utility:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~cwa107/forumimages/2008-05-05_1332.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 648857, member: 24098"] A DMG file is a virtual disk. And much like a hard disk, even though you remove the data from the disk, the capacity stays the same. Same thing with a DMG file - even empty, it still takes up the same amount of space. Here is an example - this is an empty DMG that was just created in Disk Utility: [IMG]http://home.comcast.net/~cwa107/forumimages/2008-05-05_1332.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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