![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At this point we're kind of done with using Disk Utility to create it and we want to actually interact with it in the Finder. So let's create this and it will put it out there. It will still look like a 100 megabyte disk but the file itself will be a lot smaller. You can do the rewrite disk image here but you can also do a sparse disk image which will shrink the file size to the minimum it needs. Then you can also select different formats. ![]() This is great if you want to create a disk image to put a bunch of files in and then email to somebody and you know it is protected. You can also encrypt it and you can have a password and then this password can be used to protect the files inside there. I would just leave it here for most uses. You can set a size for it and you can also set a format. This is different than the name down here which you will see when you mount the disk image just call this one Test Disk Image and you will see that name appear later. But you are going to see it just as a regular file and this is the file name. Then you give it a name and save it just like a regular file to a location because a disk image is in fact just a file inside that file instead of having say graphics or word processing document or something like that you have a whole bunch of other files. So to create a new disk image you can use this new image button here at the top or go to File, New, and Create a blank disk image. But of course the best way to do it is just Command space and search for disk utility and run it that way. Now you can find this by going to your Applications folder and then going into Utilities and there is Disk Utility. To create a disk image we're going to use the Disk Utility app. Let's take a look at creating disk images using Disk Utility. Check out Creating Disk Images at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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