Sparseimage versus sparsebundle?

What is the difference between these two types? After my fiasco with Time Machine and FileVault I decided to just create an encrypted disk image for sensitive files. I get a lot more option in Disk Utility now, but I don't know why I would want to choose a sparseimage over a sparsebundle or vice versa.
I did notice one strange thing with FileVault now under Leopard. If I select Get Info for my Home Folder, it shows that is a 595GB size, which is not possible since the whole formatted disk is only 297GB. I didn't have this problem under Tiger with the FileVault sparseimage, but the Leopard sparsebundle is acting up. If I understood the differences between these formats maybe I could tell why this is happening.

The manual page for 'hdiutil' describes this a little bit:
As of OS X 10.5, a more reliable, efficient, and scalable sparse format,
UDSB (SPARSEBUNDLE), is recommended for persistent sparse images as long
as a backing bundle (directory) is acceptable.
Basically, Apple suggests using sparsebundle as long as it's OK to have a whole folder, rather than just a single file, for the image. (Why would you care? Well, if you're creating a disk image to send in email or to be downloaded, for instance, you might want a single file.)

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Converting sparseimage to sparsebundle

Does anyone know how to do this?
I tried using hdiutil with the following command:
hdiutil convert /Volumes/"Time Capsule HD"/iMacC2DTMBkp.sparseimage -format UDSB iMacC2DTMBkp.sparsebundle
and got back the following error msg.
"hdiutil[76355:10b] Error loading /Users/wesgaige/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Con tents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: dlopen(/Users/wesgaige/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bun dle/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Users/wesgaige/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Con tents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2008-03-05 22:25:01.066 hdiutil[76355:10b] Cannot find function pointer MacDiskImagePluginFactory for factory 4D08F98C-8968-11D6-8667-0003933E9206 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x51a0c0 </Users/wesgaige/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
hdiutil: convert: only a single input file can be specified"
I appear to be missing something called "dlopen". Where can I get it?

I do not know what you mean by "escape the space with a \". I only dabble in command line.
But I did put the whole path in quotes and tried. Got the same error message.
iMac-Core2Duo:Iomega HDD wesgaige$ hdiutil convert "/Volumes/Time Capsule HD/iMacC2dTMBkp.sparseimage" -format UDSB iMacC2dTMBkp.sparsebundle
2008-03-05 23:40:34.475 hdiutil[77448:10b] Error loading /Users/wesgaige/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Con tents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: dlopen(/Users/wesgaige/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bun dle/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Users/wesgaige/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Con tents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2008-03-05 23:40:34.476 hdiutil[77448:10b] Cannot find function pointer MacDiskImagePluginFactory for factory 4D08F98C-8968-11D6-8667-0003933E9206 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x51a0d0 </Users/wesgaige/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
hdiutil: convert: only a single input file can be specified
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I restored my Macbook Pro and now I can't log in as Admin - it says there is an error with FileVault and I don't have access - plz help! thank you.

I had to restore my Macbook Pro from Time Capsule yesterday and now when I go to log in as my usual Admin, it says there is a FileVault error and my access is denied. I created another temporary Admin acct, but everything I had on my desktop, etc is "gone" I can look up the "drive' or wahtever it's called, but I can't access any of it. All I want to do is log back in as my usual self (the regular Admin) - plz help! Thanks. p.s. I"m (obviously) not that computer savvy!

Triple-click the line below to select it:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app
Rght-click or control-click the highlighted text and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* The application Directory Utility will open.
In the Directory Utility window, click the lock icon and authenticate. Select the Directory Editor tool in the toolbar. Select Users from the Viewing menu in the toolbar, if not already selected. Select the affected user account in the list. On the right is a list of properties and values. Select the property "HomeDirectory" and delete it by clicking the minus-sign icon directly below the property list. There are two such icons in the window. You want the one on the right, not the one on the left.
CAUTION: Do not click the minus-sign icon on the left, below the user list.
Then click the Save button in the lower right corner of the window. Quit Directory Utility.
CAUTION: There is no "undo" in Directory Utility. If you make a mistake and delete something in the Directory Editor that should not have been deleted, restore your whole system from a backup and start over. I have no other help to offer in that case.
Try again to log in as the affected user. If you can log in, you should find a file in the home folder with the name of the user and the filename extension "sparseimage" or "sparsebundle". Double-click that file. A disk image should open. Copy your files from that disk image to restore them.
I strongly suggest that you deactivate legacy FileVault in the Security & Privacy preference pane, then log out and log back in. Consider activating FileVault 2 if you want that kind of security.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.

Warning: Don't install Windows 7 64-bit on Older MacBook Pros

I totally hosed my machine by installing Windows 7 64 bit on a MacBook Pro that Apple has not deemed to be okay with running Snow Leopard in 64-bit. I have a Core 2 Due, which is fully 64-bit. Windows 7 64-bit runs perfectly on a MacBook Pro, but Apple's Snow Leopard can only handle 32-bits. Crazy.
I'm guessing Windows 7 updated the MacBook Pro's EFI to 64 bit, which since my Firmware hasn't been updated, can't recognize or load. Some I'm stuck.
Does anyone know how to return a 64 bit efi back to its original 32 bit version? I've been forced to reinstall Snow Leopard, hopefully the Disk Image I created will be able to bring back my data, otherwise I'm screwed and really ******.
Message was edited by: nova

I don't think Windows 7 would normally modify your Guid Partition Table, but Boot Camp
(particularly the later versions) is rapidly gaining a nasty reputation for hosing partition maps.
Test Disk might could help:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
You will need to boot it in firewire mode (if supported) or from an external clone.
I hope your disk image is good. Rule of thumb for OS Disk Images:
Make them sparseimage or sparsebundle, do not compress, and last but not least;
Make 2 of them. Just some friendly advice.
I have yet to see anyone repair a defective, compressed, UDIF disk image. I have
successfully repaired sparse UDSP/UDSB images using either disk utility and/or Disk Warrior
and/or iPartition or some combination of the three.
I'm not against disk images, to the contrary, I use them almost exclusively for backup lately.
I mount them, then place a clone or data on them using Carbon Copy Cloner or Chronosync.
Of course I only use UDSP/UDSB uncompressed images.
Kj ♘

How to restore TimeMachine backup under 10.6.8 to Lion OS

Hello.
My old laptop running 10.6.8 ("Snow Leopard") was stolen a week ago Monday. I have an external hard drive full of Mac "Time Machine" backups (a whole backup, then a bunch of incremental ones, etc.) Because I used FileVault on my own user (hereafter "User A"), whenever I made these Time Machine backups I logged into another administrative user account ("User B") for the purpose of backing up. That way I wasn't trying to back up an in-the-process-of-decrypting user from within that user.
So my laptop was stolen, and the new laptop I bought is running 10.7.2 ("Lion"). I used Migration Assistant with Time Machine and got some applications back; no User A data came back (not surprising; it was encrypted, after all.) I then made my two administrative users and tried, from User B, to restore User A. My applications came back but nothing from the user folder: no documents, music, movies. There was a little red notation: "Cannot restore an encrypted folder."
I tried to reinstall Snow Leopard on my laptop using the CDs but the computer made a horrific beeping noise. From some Internet research, the closest I came to a solution was to go into the Time Machine backups and find and load the most recent sparseimage (of my old user A). I was able to load this sparseimage and open it and so forth, but I have been virtually unable to copy anything from it to my new hard drive. (One of the errors I keep getting is error -36.) I had to copy my documents practically item by item. Photographs are impossible, as is music. I've been warned *not* to copy things one by one but to find and use an algorithm to restore the user and its files, so I stopped the item-by-item copying.
More nosing about on the Internet using terms such as "time machine", "snow leopard," "lion," "sparseimage" or "sparsebundle", and "downgrade" yields so many help articles that don't *quite* address my quandary that I don't know what to do.
Any thoughts?
(I am deliberately not posting every detail so as not to use up group bandwidth; if you need any more information, please contact me and I'll be happy to provide any missing information.)
Thanks in advance for whatever tips you can offer.

This issue has been solved. Someone on another group advised be to do the following:
1. *Copy* the relevant user from the TM backup to the laptop.
2. Use a slightly older version of the user.
When I did this, I was able to recover almost everything.

Can't paste password for new encrypted disk image.

Howdy all!
I have been trying to create an encrypted disk image with the Disk Utility, but I'm having trouble with putting in the password.
Using the password assistant, it only fills one of the two password fields, and I cannot copy/paste the password to the other field. If I generate a password elsewhere I cannot paste it into either box as well.
If I switch applications from Disk Utility and come back to the password dialog the menubar says I am still in whatever application I was last (in this case it says Firefox at the very left) and the Edit menu is completely grayed out.
Any idea how to get a non-typeable password into this dialog?
Thanks for your help.
Mike

You can paste it in if you use hdiutil to create or mount the disk image (In Terminal.app). That's the
only way to go if you use a "bullet proof monster" password like I do.
To create an encrypted, sparse disk image, open a Terminal window and cd to the directory in which
you want to create the image file. For example:
cd ~/Desktop
Then type the command:
hdiutil create -size thesize -encryption -type SPARSE -fs HFS+ thename
live command example:
hdiutil create -size 1g -encryption -type SPARSE -fs HFS+ myimage
(this will create a 1gigabyte sparse image with the hfs format with the name "myimage.sparseimage"
#note: I love sparseimages and sparsebundles because they mount so quickly#
Above, the size is the maximum size that the volume will ever be able to contain, for example,
660m for 660 megabytes or 1g for one gigabyte. Note that if you want the image file to remain
below a certain size (such as the size of a CD) you must allow for approximately 10% overhead.
Also above, thename is the name of the image file you want to create, not the volume name.
The volume name will be "untitled". Rename as you would any other mounted volume (after it is
mounted).
You will be asked for a password or phase to secure your file. In terminal you may copy and paste
or use command + V keyboard combo. It will mount normally after that.
I don't use the "Remember password (add to Keychain)" function because my passphrase will be
visible in the Keychain to anyone with physical access to your computer.
Instead I use Terminal to open my new image.
Open terminal.app, simply type:
hdiutil attach /path/to/imagefile
example:
hdiutil attach /Users/kj/Desktop/myimage.sparseimage
(remember, you can drag and drop the file path into the terminal from Finder)
Terminal will ask for your password, simply cut and paste from your favorite password program
(such as "1Password").
There is a manual page available; type man hdiutil in the Terminal.
Enjoy,
Kj

Did something with File Vault and now i can't log in

I feel stupid, sure, but hey I was just trying to get people away from my files. So what do i do now? I AM FRUSTRATED....cause i have the right password, but it just gives me a "can't log in right now" message... HELP!

Triple-click the line below to select it:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app
Rght-click or control-click the highlighted text and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* The application Directory Utility will open.
In the Directory Utility window, click the lock icon and authenticate. Select the Directory Editor tool in the toolbar. Select Users from the Viewing menu in the toolbar, if not already selected. Select the affected user account in the list. On the right is a list of properties and values. Select the property "HomeDirectory" and delete it by clicking the minus-sign icon directly below the property list. There are two such icons in the window. You want the one on the right, not the one on the left.
CAUTION: Do not click the minus-sign icon on the left, below the user list.
Then click the Save button in the lower right corner of the window. Quit Directory Utility.
CAUTION: There is no "undo" in Directory Utility. If you make a mistake and delete something in the Directory Editor that should not have been deleted, restore your whole system from a backup and start over. I have no other help to offer in that case.
Try again to log in as the affected user. If you can log in, you should find a file in the home folder with the name of the user and the filename extension "sparseimage" or "sparsebundle". Double-click that file. A disk image should open. Copy your files from that disk image to restore them.
I strongly suggest that you deactivate legacy FileVault in the Security & Privacy preference pane, then log out and log back in. Consider activating FileVault 2 if you want that kind of security.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.

Sparsebundle versus backups.backup.db

To my iMac is an external HD connected thru FW. This HD is used by several machines as a TM device. The iMac also uses this as a TM device.
Since I wanted to be free where I connected this TM/HD I made the initial backup of the iMac while the HD was connected to another Mac. This way I forced it to make a .sparsebundl instead of a folder backups.back.db. Then reconnected the TM/HD back to the iMac. All has been working well for some time.
However I cannot simply restore a file from the TM/HD. If I activate TM then it shows me only "Today". I know all the backups are there since I can see them in the mounted sparebundle.
If I connect the TM/HD to another system then all works fine and I can restore the particular data.
Is there a way around this so I do not need to unplug the TM/HD and connect it so somewhere else?
(PS: this problem has no link to my other TM problem)

To my iMac is an external HD connected thru FW. This HD is used by several machines as a TM device. The iMac also uses this as a TM device.
Since I wanted to be free where I connected this TM/HD I made the initial backup of the iMac while the HD was connected to another Mac. This way I forced it to make a .sparsebundl instead of a folder backups.back.db. Then reconnected the TM/HD back to the iMac. All has been working well for some time.
However I cannot simply restore a file from the TM/HD. If I activate TM then it shows me only "Today". I know all the backups are there since I can see them in the mounted sparebundle.
If I connect the TM/HD to another system then all works fine and I can restore the particular data.
Is there a way around this so I do not need to unplug the TM/HD and connect it so somewhere else?
(PS: this problem has no link to my other TM problem)

How can I repair a File Vault sparsebundle?

Apple has directions for repairing a File Vault sparseimage under 10.3-10.4 here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2631
I couldn't find anything more up-to-date, so I followed those directions but using the different permissions setup in 10.5. Everything seemed to work fine up until it came time to mount the sparsebundle. It wouldn't mount. I could drag the sparsebundle into Disk Utility, but when trying to "Repair" or "Verify" I get this error message:
Unable to attach “testserver.sparsebundle”. (Operation not supported on socket)
\[DUDiskController viewablePartitions\] expecting DUDisk, but got nil
As I was typing this post, I figured out what to do. Being an Admin doesn't cut it; you have to be root. I did not find it listed online, so I'm jotting it here; do this instead of what Apple says:
1. Disconnect from the network (turn off AirPort, unplug Ethernet) because we're about to temporarily log in as root, which could leave us exposed.
2. To enable the root user, open Applications / Utilities / Directory Utility. Unlock the icon with your admin password, then choose "Edit menu > Enable Root User". If this is the first time, enter a password for the root user, or if you have forgotten your root password, choose "Edit menu > Change Root Password".
3. Log in as root: Log out of the current account, then in the blank login screen, enter "root" as the username along with your root password. Or, if you have fast user switching enabled, make sure you are logged out of the FileVault in question, then pick "Login Window..." from the user menu. If you aren't allowed to type in a user name, open System Preferences > Accounts > Login Options, then disable "Automatic Login" and by "Display login window as" pick "Name and password".
4. Mount the sparsebundle: From the Finder's "Go" menu, pick "Go to folder..." and enter "/Users/". Drill down to the sparsebundle inside your FileVault account, and double-click it to mount it. When asked for your keychain password, cancel. Then you will be asked for your FileVault account's password. For security, make sure the "Store this password in my keychain" checkbox is NOT checked. Enter your FileVault password. The sparsebundle should mount.
5. Repair normally from Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility. The sparsebundle should appear as both a disk and a volume in the left pane of the Disk Utility. When done, quit, eject the sparsebundle and log out of the root account.
6. IMPORTANT: Log back in to a normal administrator account, open Applications / Utilities / Directory Utility, unlock it if necessary, then pick "Edit menu > Disable Root User". Lock the utility and quit.
7. If you disconnected from the network in step 1, it's okay to reconnect now.
From a security standpoint, it's best to leave the root user disabled. Most of the time, an admin user can get temporary root privileges; this just happens to be an exception.

Figured it out and shared solution.

Timemachine doesn't create sparseimage

Hi, i have a macpro with 10.5.4 just installed, and a time capsule. My imac does backup fine, but the macpro give this error in console:
Jul 30 09:19:42 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[147]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Backups
Jul 30 09:19:42 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[147]: Creating disk image /Volumes/Backups
Jul 30 09:19:46 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[147]: Error moving disk image from /Volumes/Backups.tmp. to /Volumes/Backups - Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=512 UserInfo=0x52e940 "“Backups.tmp..sparsebundle” could not be moved to “Volumes”."
Jul 30 09:19:46 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[147]: Failed to create disk image
Jul 30 09:19:51 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[147]: Backup failed with error: 20
Jul 30 09:19:52 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[147]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
the strange thing is that it doesn't try to create a classic sparseimage like /Volumes/Backups/userx_xxxxxxx.sparsebundle but only /Volumes/Backups, maybe this is the problem, but how i can fix it?
thanks

Someone else reported after you a problem that, after some investigation, has the same symptoms as you reported.
I've been trying to help this person, though without success so far.
I'd suggest you follow what's happening there as we continue to try and resolve it.
It's at <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1645548>

Hdiutil -- trying to create a sparseimage ends with "too many processes"

Hello
I've been trying to create a sparseimage file using both the Disk Util app and the hdiutil command-line tool to use with the Time Machine from a network folder. However, both fail with a "too many processes" error.
% hdiutil create -library SPUD -size 1g -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname lala lala
hdiutil: create failed - Too many processes
I've tried to search for it on Google without success. Is anybody else getting such errors?
Kind regards,
Mauricio

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How to TimeMachine backup to firewire disk with secure sparsebundle

Hi. I'm on the road a lot and I'd like to be able to carry a backup with my. I understand that Time Machine backups up are not secure, so I've tried to create a secure image to backup to, but I can't get it to work.
1. I created a password-protected sparsebundle image on a firewire/USB drive calle "road_backup.sparseimage"
2. I've confirmed that I can write/read to this area and that it is password protected.
Problem is that when I go to Time Machine preferences and select the backup disk it only gives me the option of the firewire/USB disk - not the secure image.
I there any way to do what I want to do - either by password protecting the whole disk or making Time Machine write to the sparsebunde?
In know that I can vault the whole disk - but I'd rather not do this.
OS is 10.6.8
Macbook Pro 13"
Intel
Thanks in advance for any help that you can give me.
49.

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How do I backup the *contents* of a sparseimage (but not the actual image)?

This is related to my iPhoto question:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2590319
I'd like to backup the contents of a sparseimage using TM. If I just point TM to the imagefile, I run in to the issue that each time I add/modify a file inside the image, then TM marks the whole image as changed and hence backs it all up. And since the image is large I run out of diskspace.
Is there some way I can just back up the contents of the image? If my sparse image file is:
/Users/shared/foo.sparseimage and it gets mounted as:
/Volumes/foo
is there someway I can point TM to /Volumes/foo and then exclude TM backing up /Users/shared/foo.sparseimage (I know how to do the latter).
Thanks in advance.

each time I add/modify a file inside the image, then TM marks the whole image as
changed and hence backs it all up. And since the image is large I run out of
diskspace.
If you use a sparsebundle disk image instead of a sparseimage, that shouldn't happen.
From this article
[Discovering Sparse Bundle Disk Images|http://db.tidbits.com/article/9673]:
A sparse bundle looks and acts just like a sparse image - it can grow in size, can optionally be compressed or encrypted, and so on. What's different is that it isn't actually a single file, as all previous disk image formats were. It's a bundle (also known as a package) - a folder that Mac OS X treats as a single file, which is also true of applications. (To verify this, you can Control-click or right-click a sparse bundle, choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu, and browse through its contents.) Inside that package is a folder full of bands - files that are each 8 MB in size, as many as are needed to hold the image's data.
What's cool about this is that if you change something on a sparse bundle (adding or modifying a file, for instance), only the band(s) containing that data change, not the whole bundle. As a result, assuming your backup software treats the contents of bundles as individual files, you no longer have to back up a huge disk image just because a tiny file changed. Your backup software only has to copy the 8 MB band(s) containing any of that file's data (often only one). So I converted my encrypted sparse image to an encrypted sparse bundle, and now I can include it along with all my other files in my ordinary backups.
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How to repair a filevault sparsebundle with disk utility?

I've been experiencing some oddness with my filevault home directory so I wanted to drop into disk utility and run a check/repair on it. The odd thing is, when I log out and into another account, the sparsebundle says 0k in the finder, and appears to be a directory. When I sudo to cd into the directory, it appears to work, but I remain in /Users/username. When I drag the sparsebundle into disk utility, it appears in the bar on the left side of the screen, but clicking repair or verify causes the progress bar to activate for a split second then stop with no error message. Trying to mount the sparsebundle yields a "No supported socket" message.
I am able to log into the account. When I do that, in /users/.username directory, I can see the sparsebundle with its true size, 35 gigabytes.
I used to repair sparseimages; is the described behavior "normal" for sparse bundles and if so, is there a way to get them repaired in disk utility? Or is this odd behavior on the part of this particular sparse bundle?

Well a bundle and a disk image are both, likewise, "very different things" than actual independent storage devices, but disk utility is able to reason out that it needs to ask for the password for the disk image and open it in order to repair it. There's no reason why it couldn't be as bright when it comes to handling a sparseimage.
You are correct that mounting it first with a terminal command (sudo hdiutil mount -nomount -readwrite /path/to/sparseimage) causes it to be repairable in disk utility. Disk utility can figure out by itself that it needs to open the disk image when you repair a disk image, but apparently not with a sparsebundle. I disagree with your tone above that implies that somehow one would not expect disk utility to function robustly and be actually capable of repairing Apple file system-based virtual disk images (whether a single file or in a directory format, doesnt matter), and that one should be expected to dig up a terminal command and mount it manually before being able to tinker with it. That's not reasonable to expect of the user for a routine task such as repairing a disk image.
However on doing so, disk utility can repair the disk.
See:
http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/how-i-saved-my-corrupted-time-machine-sparsebun dle-image

Indexing of sparseimage normal?

Hi everyone,
I'm using TM to backup to an OS X Server which has a dedicated drive shared as the TM destination drive. Yesterday I was shutting down while a TM backup was running. When doing the next scheduled backup today it took very long to start (Preparing). I saw in the console that it decided to do a deep traversal so that's OK.
The weird thing is that the mounted sparseimage was not ejected this time like it usually does when a backup has finished. The reason seems to be that Spotlight is now indexing the mounted sparseimage and this brings me to my question:
Is it normal (or neccessary at all) for Spotlight to index this disk image?
If it did that before it must've been really fast, because I never noticed it before. It's still running right now and even though it hasn't finished yet, I can already access the "Space Interface" just fine. So I'm wondering if this is maybe somewhat corelated to the deep traversal and just a one time occurence or if there's something wrong here...
Thanks!
Björn

sparse bundles are not normally indexed by spotlight. that includes the TM sparse bundle I believe. so if you do a regular spotlight search you won't see any results from the TM backups even if the sparsebundle is mounted. there is a separate indexing though that lets you use spotlight from inside TM interface. It may be that that index was damaged during the improper shutdown and is being recreated now. this is likely to be a one time occurrence.

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