Timeline for Can I attach a .dmg without mounting the drive that it is sitting in?
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| Oct 20, 2021 at 11:55 | answer | added | Joy Jin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 19:29 | vote | accept | tripleman | ||
| Mar 1, 2020 at 16:28 | answer | added | nohillside♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 16:15 | comment | added | user3439894 | The short answer is No. You cannot access any file on a given filesystem unless that filesystem is mounted! | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 16:14 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | TestDisk complains about the DMG, not the partition it is stored on. If you can't select the unmounted DMG from within TestDisk I suspect the application is just not built for the task you want to do. | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 16:10 | history | edited | tripleman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
minor spelling correction in title
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| Mar 1, 2020 at 16:06 | comment | added | tripleman | Thanks for answering @nohillside. You are correct: I'd like to run TestDisk against the .dmg but, from what I understand, the partition that the .dmg is in (or any partitions on that drive) cannot be mounted for TestDisk to be able to function. | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 8:23 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | The error message might be misleading here. I assume you want to run TestDisk against the DMG, right? This is different from „how can I open a file from a drive without mounting the drive“ (which is what your question currently asks). Can you focus your question on what you actually want to accomplish? | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 1:10 | answer | added | notkevin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 0:27 | history | asked | tripleman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |