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💾 Generate your app dmgs
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Link to desktop won't create properly #160

Closed traviskirton closed 5 years ago

traviskirton commented 6 years ago

Hi, when I use the following: 

{ "x": 480, "y": 110, "type": "link", "path": "/Desktop" },

The asset included is a white document alias, rather than a folder, and dragging a file over top of the asset doesn't work.

Using /Applications works! But, as part of my .dmg I would like people to drop some files onto the desktop like so:

screen shot 2018-02-09 at 10 22 12 am
LinusU commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately for you, the desktop doesn't reside at /Desktop, but rather /Users/<username>/Desktop

I don't think it's possible to get a link to the desktop working since it will have a different username for each user...

annejan commented 6 years ago

Does it work with ~/Desktop ?

LinusU commented 5 years ago

Closing because of inactivity, feel free to try ~/Desktop and report back ☺️

Powersawer commented 3 years ago

Hello! I am having the same issue. I was just about to accept that creating a usable universal desktop alias is not possible, but it can be done with apples hdutil pretty easily. I attached a sample DMG file, I tested it on my coworkers' machines and they were able to use the desktop alias. This topic is old, so I was wondering if maybe there is some way to incorporate this into the appdmg workflow.

The File: https://easyupload.io/d94fvu

If that File is too sketchy for you, what I did was simply create a fresh Image with the HD Utility GUI and then dragged an alias of the desktop into it. Then I compressed the image. After sending it do different people, they were able to utilize the alias and drag the included sample file to their desktop.

Kind regards