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jer2eydevil88

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Apple took it upon themselves to break the Disk Utility in every conceivable manner. Including the preferences section that has allowed me to disable verifying the checksum of every DMG file I open. It's a pet peeve of mine to have to wait for that to complete before it opens a DMG file for an installer.

Can anyone tell me an alternative way to disable it? My Google Fu is weak on this one.
 
At least to me, it is really starting to look like Apple's only offer to the public is going to be a glued together case with all soldered components and few if any software configuration options.
Amazing how attitudes change once you become "King of the Hill"

Sorry for the thread hi-jack.
 
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I just tried this : sudo defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify true

But get a new error: no mountable file systems? Is there any trick to fix the second error?

Cheers
 
I just tried this : sudo defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify true

But get a new error: no mountable file systems? Is there any trick to fix the second error?

Cheers

This error only occurred after you changed the setting? This normally suggests that something is wrong with the DMG file.

By the way, the correct command is:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify -bool true
 
As of OS X 10.11.3 this fix no longer seems to work. The disk verification is no longer disabled and re-applying it doesn't have the same effect.
 
As of OS X 10.11.3 this fix no longer seems to work. The disk verification is no longer disabled and re-applying it doesn't have the same effect.

I ran into this problem with Sibelius, but I found out another workaround.

If you Navigate to System/Library/CoreServices and then launch the Installer app, it will then ask you to find and open a .pkg. Navigate to where you have your disk image saved, and select it. It'll bypass the verify and go straight to installing.
 
Will that stop verifying all apps ( that aren't from the store or verified) or just the one that I have selected ?
 
I ran into this problem with Sibelius, but I found out another workaround.

If you Navigate to System/Library/CoreServices and then launch the Installer app, it will then ask you to find and open a .pkg. Navigate to where you have your disk image saved, and select it. It'll bypass the verify and go straight to installing.

Thank you this worked perfect!
 
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