Recover data from corrupted dmg

Question

I had a simular problem as in the asked question (see link) Tools/tips to recover data from a corrupt DMG disk image?

Really want to try nworkers solution to this problem but before I do something stupid I'm not really experienced with terminal code.

How does this command work? hdiutil convert -format UDTO -o

Where does the file have to be? User Home folder? Thank you in advance for any help provided.

Answer 1

You can drag the .dmg to Terminal at the appropriate point in typing the command & it will set the name & path for you.

You can essentially do the same for the output, but change the name.

In essence... Type or copy/paste...
hdiutil convert (then drag dmg here, then type the next bit) -format UDTO -o (drag it again, then backspace a bit & change the name)

Clumsy, but effective.