How to prevent HDIUTIL from opening a finder window when mounting a dmg?

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When I mount a DMG image with

hdiutil -noautoopen

and try to suppress the finder window with any and all command line arguments to HDIUTIL it still open's a Finder window. There must be a way to prevent this... am I wrong?

Since I´ve just tried `hdiutil attach -noautoopen /path/to/read-only.dmg` and it worked fine, could you please specify what kind of .dmg you are trying to open (read-only or not, which format)? — Asmus, Mar 01 '11 at 16:32
I'm specifically testing with this one... http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/mac/download/latest/AdobeAIR.dmg — ClintM, Mar 01 '11 at 16:56

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 15 '13 at 18:04

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In Mountain Lion (10.8.3), none of the -noautoopen options worked. The -nobrowse option does, though:

hdiutil attach -nobrowse /path/to/file.dmg

answered Apr 15 '13 at 18:04

kipkoan

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This should be the accepted answer. – Meow Aug 01 '16 at 05:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 05 '11 at 11:14

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By default the Finder will always auto open read only images. Try to pass -noautoopenro!

answered May 05 '11 at 11:14

MacLemon

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How to prevent HDIUTIL from opening a finder window when mounting a dmg?

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