Trouble resizing .dmg file

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Trouble resizing .dmg file

I have a password-protected .dmg file that is currently 10 GB. I want to bring it down to 2 GB. I've tried resizing it in disk utility, but it doesn't seem to work. It just stays at 10 GB. I've tried a whole bunch of things and for the life of me I don't know what the problem is. The file is read and write, I should be able to change it.

Any help would be appreciated.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.1.x)

Posted on Aug 12, 2016 11:40 PM

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stevejobsfan0123

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Aug 13, 2016 12:07 AM in response to untel21

Unfortunately, disk images created through Disk Utility cannot be resized once created. You would need to create a new, smaller disk image, copy the contents of the existing one to it, then delete the original.

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