Volume with names longer than 27 characters

[LinusU]

How should this be handled?

[LinusU]

Could be interesting to try and figure out how CFURLCreateBookmarkDataFromFile does it. It seems like they produce a different kind of alias format. Strange 😕

[iRobertas]

Hello, is there any news about this problem ? When you plan release a fix ? Could you be more specific and explain "I did a quick try and it turns out that truncating the volume name in the alias does indeed work." how can I do this by myself ?

[LinusU]

The volume name is stored twice in the alias and only the first occurrence have a limit of 27 characters. Writing anything into the first one and then the correct information into the second one works around the problem.

The code thats add the second occurrence is in create.js, line 118-132.

The current code is throwing at encode.js, line 40-44. Only using the 27 first characters from info.volume.name at this particular point works around the problem.

[LinusU]

There should however be a better solution, since CFURLCreateBookmarkDataFromFile produces aliases that works. We should figure out how they work and use that approach.

[busterbogheart]

Very old ticket here, but still I am limited to 27 chars for a DMG (producing an Electron app with Forge). Is this still a limitation?

[erickzhao]

Hey @busterbogheart, we patched out this assertion locally with patch-package and the generated DMG works fine in production.