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How to open a Mac OS X sparsebundle when it shows up as a regular folder
06/29/09
How to open a Mac OS X sparsebundle when it shows up as a regular folder
What do you do if you have, say, an encrypted sparsebundle and some day you try to open it and you discover it shows up as a plain folder in the Finder instead as a bundle icon?
Double clicking will just open the folder and show you the bands that make up the bundle.
So I don’t know how you fix the issue in the Finder but I know how you mount the sparsebundle and access the files: just open a Terminal window and type this:
hdid "/path/to/bundle/name_of_bundle.sparsebundle/"
Then you’ll have your virtual drive mounted on teh desktop, and if need be you can just copy them to a new sparsebundle.2 comments
Comment from: Andy Goundry [Visitor]
Ace post! I'd forgotten how to do that and this reminded me. Worked a treat!Thanks!
07/16/09 @ 22:13
Comment from: pdelges [Visitor]
setFile -a B /path/to/bundle/name_of_bundle.sparsebundle/will set the bundle bit. The sparsebundle should then appear as a disk image.
setFile in part of the developer's kit... but I think there are ways to install it witout installing the whole dev stuff.
08/26/09 @ 13:25
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