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Questions tagged [sparsebundle]

Type of disk image commonly used on macOS systems

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can sparsebundles be locked to make them read-only?

With sparseimage files, I can set the Locked attribute in 'Get Info' to prevent modifying its content. Doing so with sparsebundles has no effect it seems. At the moment I'm storing my sparsebundle inside of a sparseimage to get this easy-lock…
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Apple has "sparse bundles" but not sparse files?

Backstory: I use a Mac (10.6.4), and to this day when I download a torrent using Vuze, no matter what configuration I try Vuze allocates space for the entire file before it starts downloading said file. For a long time, a quick google led me to…
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Mounting a sparsebundle in OS X (specifically Time Machine)

I have a (not critical) problem, that seems to have been introduced with 10.6.4. I backup using Time Machine to an Airport disk (same as a Time Capsule). But if I mount the sparsebundle image manually in Finder (for example, to use Backup Loupe),…
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Sparse Bundles grow in file size, but it's not supposed to shrink by deleting data. But my Sparse Bundles is able to auto resize, why is that?

I am on macOS Sonoma, but I've noticed this since macOS Ventura. I created a sparse bundle disk image in Disk Utility, with a capacity of 100TB, encrypted, and in APFS. Recently I keep running out of storage space and noticed that removing files…
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Is it possible to browse a Time Machine sparsebundle file on a non Mac OS X system

(e.g. Linux) - command line or tool is fine. Time Machine backups on local disks are just folders with softlinks, so they are easy to browse.
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APFS encrypted sparsebundle won't fully compact

I have an APFS encrypted sparsebundle saved on my HD. It is not a time machine backup, rather something I created and maintain manually. On occasion I perform an hdiutil compact to reclaim HD space. High Sierra (10.13.6) Finder reports that the…
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MacOS: mounting password-protected sparsebundle doesn't ask for password

I have an encrypted, password-protected sparsebundle that I occasionally mount and unmount from the terminal. I want the system to ask for the password every time I mount it, but for some reason it keeps remembering. This is how I mount it: hdiutil…
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Disable .DS_Store, Spotlight and other metadata on Mac disk image

I store my files (plaintext) on an encrypted Sparse Bundle Disk Image and backup this image (the ciphertext) with Rsync to another server. Sparse Bundle Disk Images create 8 MiB files ("bands") to store the ciphertext. The problem is: just opening…
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How to safely back up a sparsebundle that is exported via afpd?

I have several OSX client machines that back up via TimeMachine to AFP shares on an Ubuntu Linux server, exported by netatalk/afpd. These clients back up at arbitrary times of the day, every day. There are other important non-TimeMachine AFP shares…
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Stop Mac OS X disk image from being mounted automatically when files on them are accessed

I have a program that, every time it is launched, tries to read a file stored on a disk image (a sparse bundle, to be exact). If the disk image is not mounted, the program automatically attempts to mount it. I want to change this; i.e. when the…
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How can I extract all files from a Time Machine sparsebundle archive without duplicates?

I have a sparsebundle image created with Time Machine from a Mac running OS X Snow Leopard, containing backups of the same mac with a lot of different snapshots. I would like to extract all files from the archive without copying the same file from…
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Recover Time Machine sparsebundle backup

I have a Time Machine backup from an old computer that I can't open. When I double click on the sparsebundle file, I get "no mountable filesystems". I've next tried this: hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck Emily’s\ iMac.sparsebundle This…
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MacOS: Create a raw (dd) Image of an APFS volume

I have a .sparsebundle and I would like to convert it to something that can be used outside of the apple bubble. APFS/HFS is supported by a bunch of tools, but sadly the image formats are not from what I know. The main issue is, that the…
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How I mount a writeable sparsebundle as writeable?

I created a sparsebundle with my admin user. Mounted it, added files to it, worked a bit, etc... Created another user. Booted as the other user, and couldn't write to the sparsebundle, then I went back to admin... and can't write there either. No…
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How to efficiently restore all RAW photos from sparsebundle/time machine backups?

I got into a problem were a large number of my raw photos have been deleted over time but I'm pretty sure they are on my time machine backup, but manually using OSX timewarp UI to go and find these files are going to take ages. Is there a way to…
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