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Script to unmount mounted image automatically after some time
I have a sparse image that can be mounted as an encrypted volume.
I want to make sure it doesn't stay mounted once I am done using it.
To get help doing that, I had earlier asked this question, but ...
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Backing up a large sparsebundle using Time Machine
I use a large (presently 16GB) sparsebundle as a container for all of my professional work. This is convenient for me because it is an isolated, secure, "portable" entity where all of my work can be ...
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auto unmount .dmg if it has not been accessed for a while
Is there a way to automatically unmount a specific volume (mounted from a .dmg/.sparseimage) if it has not been accessed for a specified period?
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This would be especially useful for password ...
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Difference between du and Finder file sizes
I was having a look at the size of libBLAS.dylib at some location in my Mac and du showed it's file size as 572K while the allocated file size (showed by Finder) was 1.4MB. I've read that the lack of ...
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Why can't I paste into the password dialog when mounting an encrypted disk image?
I've got an encrypted disk sparse bundle disk image and I've used fstab with the right UUID to mount it someplace other than /Volumes. What I would like is to just dbl-click on it, enter the password ...
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Time Machine — ‘Sparsebundle already in use’ error
A few days ago, Time Machine on my Mac reported an error: ‘Sparsebundle already in use’. Manual unmount of the Time Capsule didn't help, nor a reboot of my machine. Removing and re-selecting my Time ...
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Difference between sudo and root for hdiutil (over afp)
A friend of mine has his TimeMachine volume on a NAS. That means it's a sparesebundle on the NAS disk.
When he tried to recover, he found that his TimeMachine image was hosed. Looking online, they ...
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Test a list of passwords on Sparse Image
I have a sparse image file with some important data in it I would like to retrieve. The only problem is I've forgotten the password.
I have a good idea of the parts of the password and managed to ...
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Why is my Legacy FileVault image larger than the physical disk?
I'm still running Snow Leopard and recently enabled FileVault on my home directory. I noticed that the OS X thinks my home directory is 1TB, which is strange because the hard disk in my laptop is ...
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Dependencies for LaunchAgent so it mounts a bundle before other daemons run
I have following setup: I have a sparsebundle on an external disk containing steam (it wouldn't install on my internal disk - something about the format). But by now I depend on this approach as this ...
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How to use my own sparse bundle image on Time Capsule for backups?
I'm trying to create my own sparse bundle image on Time Capsule and set it up for Time Machine. My main requirement is to limit the disk space allowed for backups but I would also like to encrypt ...
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Completely recover space from sparse bundle when “hdiutil compact” is not enough
Current situation: I have a large sparse bundle image whose size is reported as 91GB (cmd+I from Finder). Its contents, instead, are only 80GB. hdiutil compact does not shrink the image:
Starting to ...
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Change “ignore ownership on this volume” from the command line for Mac OS X volume
(This question is a spin-off of another question I asked on this site.)
New images always ignore owner/group
When creating a new disk image from Disk Utility it is automatically mounted. If you then ...
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Cannot change owner and group of file mounted disk image
I have an external disk which (for other reasons) is formatted using FAT32. On that disk I have created a sparse bundle image formatted using HFS extended (journaled). This image is then mounted on ...
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How do you access the content of the iPhoto bundle from Time Machine?
I would like to access the files of the iPhoto library bundle to retrieve just some of the files to help solving this question about corrupted iPhoto db files properly.
In time machine mode there is ...
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Can you repair a Leopard sparsebundle in Lion?
I have a MacBook that runs Leopard and uses Time Machine to backup to a linux based server. For a long time this setup has worked perfectly, but apparently it stopped working over a week ago. It ...
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FileVault sparsefile uses double of actual allocated disk space
I just noticed that for some reason disk usage (du) reports that FileVault in my home directory would use its allocated disk space twice:
[/Users]% sudo du -h -d 1 .
184G ./.moo
170G ./moo
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Deleting files on sparse bundle disk images doesn't actually free the space
I used Disk Utility to create an empty encrypted sparsebundle on a FAT volume A. It contains an HFS volume B. I am running on Snow Leopard.
The DMG now pretty much fills A, and I'm fine with that. ...
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out of diskspace because of sparsebundle
My disk is out of space all of a sudden and I found out that a directory in /Users/.harith/harith.sparsebundle is using 178 gigs of space. What is this directory? How/Why is my mac using it. Is it ...
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How do I mount a sparsebundle to a folder rather than an image?
I have a encrypted sparsebundle and I want to mount to to a folder in my home directory and not under /Volumes. How can I do that?
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Do OS X Lion's Versions and Resume features store the cached data for encrypted .sparsebundle images in a secure way?
I store sensitive information on my laptop in encrypted .sparsebundle images which are made with apps like Disk Utility, Knox and Espionage. The question is, if I upgrade to Lion, when I'm working on ...
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Repair Time Machine sparsebundle that will no longer mount
I messed up my Time Machine backup in some way. I'm no longer able to mount the sparsebundle file as I get an error stating that there are no mountable filesystems.
I used the hdiutil command to ...
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Time Machine sparsebundle corrupted on disconnect
I've been using Time Machine over wifi and have had a recurring problem with corrupted sparsebundles. The scenario is a relatively new Airport Extreme, a MacBook with Leopard, and a partitioned ...
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Merge Time Machine Backup
Is it possible to merge to Time Machine Backups?
When I look inside the sparse-bundle which Time Machine generates then I see that the folder-structure ordered by dates. So theoretically I could copy ...
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Is it normal for it to take hours to delete a Time Capsule “sparsebundle”
I'm trying to make room on my time capsule to make backups (it currently tells me it's full).
I got help in this question with how to delete individual backups, but it didn't solve the problem. ...
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Why can't I access the Time Machine backup .sparsebundle file on my new computer?
I've been at this for a solid 6 hours now, hoping like heck someone here can help me.
I've had a Time Capsule for nearly 2 years, consistently backing up two different laptops in my home using Time ...
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How can I “clean out” my Time Machine backups if Time Machine won't backup because the disk is full?
When Time Machine tries to make a backup, it informs me that it can't because the backup disk is full.
What it's mostly full of (about 700GB of 1TB) is prior backups of the same machine. Time ...
