Disk Utility - "Unable to create 'Desktop' -  error 49168" - What's this?

I try to create a compressed disk image of my Desktop using Disk Utility and get the following error:
Unable to create "Desktop" - error 49168
Does anyone know what that means?

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"error 49168"
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