Scanned images lost via disk image

Scanned over 400 slides using Canon 8600 with PhotoStudio and saved as JPGs. To transfer to a PC I selected to save as an MS-Dos format and understood I had to create a Disk Image. Did all that, now I can't find any trace of the JPGs I saved, and no Disk Images are noted when I searched the hard drive. Any ideas how to locate my pictures?

Have found my .dmg files I scanned in. They are in KeyChain App and have been unlocked, but I can't find a way to get the JPG images out of the disk image. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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After re-installing Lion, my desktop disk image vanished. How can I find it?

The applicaton package Install Mac OS X Lion will be deleted at the conclusion of the installation process if it is located in the Applications folder. There is no reasonable way to recover it once deleted.
Your best bets are:
1- Get a copy from someone who made a backup.
2- Redownload it from the Mac App Store.
Note that you don't really need it, since your hard drive now has a special recovery partition. Reboot the computer while holding the option key and you will be able to choose a boot partition called Recovery HD. Boot into that, and you can reinstall Lion from there.
If you want to redownload the installer, here's how:
http://www.hightechdad.com/2011/07/21/how-to-re-download-mac-os-x-lion-create-a- bootable-install-dvd/

Copy Disk Image to New Disk Image

Hi. I have a disk image that is in sparsebundle form and has a total size of 9.61gb. When I mount the image, it results in a volume with 8.53gb used and 15.97gb capacity. Let's say that I wanted to move this entire volume to a new partition that is only 10gb in size. I should technically be able to do this since the files only take up 9.61gb, right? I can't seem to move it to a new volume, or disk image with a capacity less than 15.97gb. Is there a way that I can work around this? Basically I just want to create a new volume with total capacity approx 10gb and copy the files over. I tried using disk utility and restoring but I keep getting an error about not enough space. Any thoughts would be helpful, thanks!

See if you can reduce the size of the existing sparse bundle, per #A8 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
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Is it possible (and does not cause any problems) to create a disk image inside a disk image?

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I'd like to setup a password protected Disk Image with several different password proteced disk images inside. Such as different levels of security. is that possible at all and if yes, is there anything to consider or any known issues?

sorry my englisch is not that good. I don't understand your sentence. what does it no to both queries mean?

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I read that with Lion you could do a Time Machine backup to a network share on Windows Home Server 2011. I read you could create a image file via Disk Utility that would be placed on the network share, but mounted as a regular disk in Mac. I think I read this method no longer works on Moutain Lion though. Has anyone tried it? I'm setting up a new Mac Mini and would like to do time machine backups to my WHS 2011 drivepool. If it is possible great, any way to use the backup for bare metal restores as well? (ether across the network, or putting that image file on a usb drive first etc) I use bootcamp to go back and forth on my Mac Mini, but I'd like to keep things backed up on the Mac side via standard time machine.

I re-googled and found something I read about a few days ago that shows how it was done in Lion:
http://basilsalad.com/how-to/create-time-machine-backup-network-drive-lion/
I think maybe I found someone that tells how to do it:
http://www.jamesbadger.ca/2012/09/12/mountain-lion-time-machine-over-afp-auto-mo unt-edition/
The question is, how do I use this backup for a baremetal restore then? I'm assuming I would do a generic Mountain Lion restore, and then just restore over the network after I manually re-mount the image again first.
Does this sound like a real option/solution? Looks like maybe I answered my own question, but I'd like to hear anyone else confirm it works and is worth trying.
So my goal is to do a time machine backup over the network to a windows machine.
If it's not possible, I guess I'll have to break down and plug in an external USB drive, but I'd still like to know if it's possible for another friend as well.

Mounting an Apple disk image (Intel Mac) under other Unixes/Linux

Hello,
I have started my MacBook in HDD Mode and connected it via Firewire-Cable to my "Main-Server" (Slackware Linux 11.0).
From there i created a "Disk-Image" from my MacBooks HDD using "dd"
I can mount the disk image within OS X without any problems, but i can´t mount it on the Linuxbox.
I have used this cmd under Linux : "mount -o loop -t hpfs image.dmg /mnt/tmp" But i am getting an error saying that it doesn´t seem to be a Apple File System Image.
I have made sure that support for Apple FS is "compiled-in" in the Linux-Kernel. If i do a file image.dmg i get this:
x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xee, starthead 254, startsector 1, 117210232 sectors, extended partition table (last)\011
Does anyone know how i can mount this image under Linux?
Thanks,
tyrtux.

I can't offer any solution yet, but here's a bit of information that might prove useful in understanding the problem.
"mount" on Linux mounts file systems, not disk images. A disk image is just that -- a bit-for-bit image of the sectors on what would be a physical disk. A file system is a portion of a disk structured in a specific way -- a section set aside for managing free space, a "root" directory, etc.
A partition is a logical subdivision of a disk. Usually, each file system on a disk completely fills one partition; but partitions may overlap, and one partition may contain any number of file systems.
A disk -- and therefore a disk image -- contains, within its first physical sector, a partition map. The map includes the start sector, size, and type of each partition. The type usually hints at what the file system -- if any -- of the associated partition is.
When you connect a physical drive to a Linux system -- be it IDE, SCSI, USB, or CD-ROM -- Linux scans the partition table. You can then use mount to get access to individual file systems on the device. When you use "mount -o loop", you are asking mount to connect a loopback device to a file that represents not a disk -- but a file system. This is why your attempt is failing; the disk image doesn't look like a file system, it looks like a disk -- it has a partition table of its own.
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Source Material error when burning disk image

Well, I've been haunting these forums for 10 days, finding answers to every darn problem under the sun I've encountered! (thanks folks, I've been near hysteria) Now I have yet another problem, and I cannot find an answer in the forums (sorry if it's there.)
I have built my movie in iMovie, imported to iDVD, created my disk image, played my disk image (worked perfectly), connected my brand new LaCie external burner, loaded Toast 6 Lite, dragged my mounted disk image icon into the window, popped in my Verbatim DVD+R and let 'er rip.
And, poo, I'm informed that 4 files are in an unsupported format and cannot be imported. EH? I thought the disk image kept all self-contained? I press onward, and hit burn. Churning, churning... and then this message:
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Trying to burn via Disk Utility doesn't work either. My mounted disk shows up, but when highlighted the burn button is grayed out. Only when I click on the .img file is the burn option lit.
Am I supposed to drag the .img file rather than the mounted little disc icon? PLEASE HELP. These movies were SUPPOSED to be Xmas presents... now I'm praying for Michaelmas gifts!
TIA

ohmygosh. Lightbulb! I've been trying to burn the file_name one and not the file_name.img one. I assumed the point of mounting the file was to burn it, but it's only to preview it, yes?? So, I did that via Disk Utility, and it worked!! Only thing I can't figure is how to set the burn speed. I know slower is better, but can't find the place to tell it the speed. It never asks.
Toast still gives me the source material error. I do have the 'video' tab selected, and I've done the drag-n-drop method AND the 'add' method ('copy' is only for transferring data from one CD/DVD to another in my version, evidently). Toast doesn't allow me to grab the .img file, so I'm assuming IT wants the mounted file_name one? I'd still like to be able to use Toast to burn, so a solution to this would be appreciated. I'm using Toast 6 Lite, BTW.

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Disk images not mounting

Here's the question: how come .dmg files downloaded from apple.com (amongst other places) won't mount?
Here's the detail: This has to be a FAQ going by Google searches. I've downloaded the Mac Firefox DMG 3 times, and the Safari DMG from apple.com once, and when I try to mount the images I get a range of different cryptic errors, including "codec overrun", "not recognized", "error -some number or other", and so on. Sometimes, I get two different errors for the Safari image.
Existing disk images on my hard drive mount fine. Today my hard disk has been playing up, with files being corrupted, keychain being broken, prefs disappearing, and so on. I boot from the Tiger DVD, run Disk Utility and Repair Disk, tells me no repairs carried out as all hunky dory. Use Disk Utility on the HD to check permissions, those are fine. Run Onyx maintenance, all is fine. I've not changed the router prefs at all, so it's not that corrupting the downloads.
All was fine until mid-afternoon today, when a number of apps (Firefox, Safari, Dreamweaver) started behaving strangely and the machine kept on hanging. On restart a number of taskbar icons became question marks, so something's being corrupted. Some downloaded PDFs became corrupted.
What I might try to do is download DMGs from my work PC, put them on a stick, and try to mount them. If the problem recurs then that would eliminate download errors.
My conclusion is that either the OS has become damaged, or the HD is physically fubar'd, or at least has some physical errors on it somewhere which DU isn't picking up. If the latter I'm screwed as I'm out of warranty and I might as well chuck the machine in the bin, so let's hope it's the OS. I could reinstall the OS (again) but a) that would be highly time-consuming as I'd also have to reinstall a shedload of apps, prefs, configs, etc, and b) if there's a physical HD error it'll do zero.
I've already spent some fruitless and frustrating hours today on diagnosis, and having done tech supp in my career I know what to look for, so this is my last throw of the dice to try to get some kind person to suggest a) a diagnosis, and b) suggestions for a cure.
Without a cure I might as well take a clawhammer to the thing and get a Linux laptop. Ok, PCs are far inferior to Macs with crappy hardware, but at least you don't lose over a thousand quid when your PC laptop fails.
Cheers
Fred Riley
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I was able to get a partial fix of this problem by following instructions that I found on the All Experts web site:
Regarding disk images and mounting media:
delete the following files and folders:
* /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache (file)
* /System/Library/Extensions.mkext (file)
* /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches (folder)
(Note that after deleting these files you need to reboot your Mac for the fix to take effect.)
All of these files and folders were date 18 Aug 2009, which is in around the timeframe when I installed the last security update for OS10.4 ppc.
I say the solution is a partial fix, because it did allow me to open some, but not all .dmg files (the problematic ones are showing a checksum error). Now I find that iTunes will not operate (yeah I know that should be another thread), but I have not used it in several weeks, prior to the last OS update.

Disk Utility reports "resource busy" and can't create an disk image

HI,
Just succesfully updated to Mountain Lion on my MBA and iMac. No problems. A very smooth proces.
But, on my iMac the Disk Utility are not able to create new images at all! I'm not sure if this relates directly to the update, as
DU works fine on the MBA.
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2012-08-01 07:46:16 +0200: Creating Image “MyDiskImage.sparsebundle”
2012-08-01 07:46:16 +0200: Initializing…
2012-08-01 07:46:16 +0200: Creating…
2012-08-01 07:46:27 +0200: Formatting…
2012-08-01 07:46:28 +0200: Finishing…
2012-08-01 07:46:29 +0200: Unable to create “MyDiskImage.sparsebundle.” (Resource busy)
2012-08-01 07:46:29 +0200:
2012-08-01 07:47:01 +0200: Verify and Repair volume “disk3s2”
2012-08-01 07:47:01 +0200: Starting repair tool:
2012-08-01 07:47:01 +0200: Checking file system2012-08-01 07:47:01 +0200: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2. Creating a disk image from a folder
2012-08-01 07:59:10 +0200: Creating Image “Parallels køb juli 2012.dmg”
2012-08-01 07:59:10 +0200: Initializing…
2012-08-01 07:59:11 +0200: Creating…
2012-08-01 07:59:20 +0200: Finishing…
2012-08-01 07:59:21 +0200: Unable to create “Parallels køb juli 2012.” (Resource busy)
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Hi Darth,
Thanks for the suggestion. Somehow I managed to solve the issue (the question was posted in July), I think I restarted the computer a couple of times, but it's interesting that you mention Drive Genius and Drive Pulse, as I also had that app running!
Maybe Drive Pulse was also turned of here in my process and helped to solve the issue.
Anyhow, thanks.

Is it safe to back up a disk image file when it's mounted?

Hi -
I use some small, encrypted ".sparsebundle" disk image files to keep my diary, banking info, etc., on. When I'm at the computer, I keep them mounted all the time.
Is it safe to let Time Machine automatically back up the .sparsebundle disk image files, even while they are mounted? Or would there be a possibility the backups would be corrupted, if the operating system hadn't written out cached data or something to the disk image file?
In other words, if I save any open documents on the mounted disk image, does the disk image file on disk always contain the fully-saved document and a consistent file system? Or could there still be some data cached in RAM, that would not be saved at the time the .sparsebundle file was copied? Is it always necessary to unmount a disk image before duplicating its .sparsebundle file?
Do I need to turn off Time Machine's automatic backup, and just do manual "backup now" after unmounting the disk images? That's a major pain in the behind... I really want to just let Time Machine do it's hourly backups as usual, but of course there's no point if the backups are corrupt.
Of course my own guess is "to be safe", I should unmount them before backing up. But again it's a big pain if it's not actually necessary. Does anyone know for sure?
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My understanding is that Unix, generally, doesn't write everything out to disk immediately. There is caching in RAM to speed up disk access, including modified superblocks, modified inodes, and delayed reads and writes. Now, if you ask to read an individual file, the kernel makes sure all the cached data is written before it returns the read data. But if you try to do, for example, a block copy of the whole filesystem, the kernel doesn't know that, and there's no guarantee or expectation that the filesystem will be in a coherent state.
That's the purpose, for example, of the "sync" command - to write all this cached data to disk before unmounting, shutting down, etc., and, that's why the OS gets so upset if you just unplug a firewire drive. Because even if you've saved and closed any open documents, they haven't necessarily been fully written out to disk yet.
So what I don't understand, is how people are ever able to back up mounted disk image files without them getting corrupted. I mean, you'd think they would get corrupted all the time. It would be the equivalent of just unplugging your firewire drive before you made a backup of it, or of doing a block copy of a read/write mounted filesystem. There ought to be a very good chance of the filesystem being scrambled. So, why does it not happen?
Is there something different about the Apple filesystem, or Apple disk images? Or, maybe we're only talking about delay times in the cache of fractions of a second, so as long as you haven't written anything within a few seconds of the copy, and don't write anything during it, you're ok?
Even if Apple reps won't answer my question, the kernel and most likely all the low-level disk i/o and filesystem stuff is open source. Surely there's someone out there who would be knowledgeable enough to give a definitive answer? I was hoping to find someone like that here... I do appreciate your taking the time to answer my post, but maybe I need to go elsewhere, on some developers' mailing lists or something? Does anyone know of such a place I could start looking?
Thanks...

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Any chance the first disk image was still mounted on your desktop when you put its .img file into the trash?
Thanks! I think you nailed it!
I had tried playing from the disk image with DVD player first and it played fine, but then I decided to do more edits so I trashed the .img file. I forgot that I had mounted it. When I tried to burn the second disk image, Disk Utility must have still used the first image, even though it had been trashed, because it was still mounted.
However, the icon showing when something is mounted was not there.....until after I had made the final image and then I could eject the mounted disk whose path on DU showed that the .img file was indeed in the trash.
Do you think that would have made its name change to 'disk 5' and would that have caused the burn to stop just 3min short of the end?

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I created an Encripted Disk Image to file some sensitive things in BUT how do I drag them into it...I show a .dmg icon but I cannot drag any folders into it...how do I go about this..?
Also when I click on the .dmg nothing happens...and it shows a folder of this under '/Volumes' which I can't find....HELP

robert larkin,
In case anything here might be of help to you.
1.
When I create a .dmg and save it to Documents, the drive icon appears in the top portion of my sidebar in the Finder. I can double click to open it, add items, delete items, and then eject it when I am done. I can put the .dmg file wherever I want it to be stored.
2.
Here are three links which I have used to figure out how to work with disk images.
Creating a blank disk image
Creating a disk image
Mac OS X: How to create a password-protected (encrypted) disk image
Sincerely,
No Alibi.
 Backup what you can't afford to lose. Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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sdl3 wrote:
OK... I opened iDVD, found my project, and selected 'file', 'save as disk image'. The disk image was created (took almost 3 hours this way!). now, when i open disk utility, i can see the image there. i placed a blank DVD in the computer, selected the image in disk utility and clicked 'burn'. when i placed the burned DVD in my DVD player, it says it cannot read the disk! my understanding is that creating a disk image is the smart way to keep backup copies of my home made DVD's but if I can't burn playable replacement DVD's that obviously negates this option. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Advice above is 'spot on' : Do 'save as disk image'INSIDE iDVD. The disk image should be playable in anything which PLAYs DVD VIDEO_TS Folders: DVD Player, Mpegstreamclip, VLC.... I'm sure the only reason it took almost 3 hours this way is because iDVD Wasn't finished encoding/finalising the project....
W/O changes, subsequent Burns shd be as fast as any other DVD Burn (Altho, as I think was suggested, Burn at slow speed on slwo media is a very wise move.
CAVEAT: Burning using OTHER tools - from folder etc is not alway going to 'get everything' iDVD Changes, assets/work /temp files may be kept elsewhere.. etc etc.
INSIDE iDVD is the only safe way of 'getting it all.
best,
[PS: Hitchhikers' advice: Don't panic: This is very mature stuff now, you have a zillion options, most of them work very very well.- Good Luck]

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