Sparseimage???

After installing Leopard I now have a sparseimage of my old system. How do I transfer all data to Leopard from Tiger?

By sparseimage I believe you mean that your backup (presumable on an external HD) is not a full realtime clone but rather an incremental backup. That means that each original file is associated with updates and not a complete file. Ouch! Not terrible, but time consuming since you have to put the files backtogether on a different OS.
Check out this first
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060208145920716
and here
http://www.macusenet.com/archive/index-t-72255.html
and here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5527874
I hope that helps. You probably have lost nothing. But in the future, when installing a new OS, always do a full backup, preferably a bootable clone.
Good Luck and let us know how it went.

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Time Machine No Longer Finds Mounted Sparseimages after upgrade to 10.6

Wondering if anyone has a solution or workaround for the following. In Leopard I had no problem having Time Machine backup my mounted sparseimage drives and would exclude the physical hard drives these were mounted on. However, since upgrading to Snow Leopard the other day, Time Machine no longer includes the content of the sparseimage drives in the backup (it is not seeing them even when they are mounted). Presents a problem as I only want Time Machine to backup the files within the sparseimage drives that have changed, rather than backing up the whole sparseimage each time. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Marco1975 wrote:
Hi,
Since I have updated to 10.6.1 (over 10.5.8), my time machine only returns error messages. I am backing up 3 computers on 2 disks via airport extreme and it worked perfectly under 10.5.8. Since I upgraded to 10.6.1, I cant mount the disk or if it does, stops after 5 gig.
With no clue as to what error messages, all we can do is tell you to Start with the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.
It will show you how to locate the message(s) that describe the problem, then help you fix it.
If that doesn't help, please start a NEW THREAD in the SNOW LEOPARD - TIME MACHINE forum, with details, including all the messages, what you've done, and the results.

Need help restoring from a SilverKeeper .sparseimage file

Before upgrading a MacBook from Leopard to Snow Leopard I used SilverKeeper to backup the hard drive, sending the data to a .sparseimage file. I'm now trying to restore - or expand/extract - the .sparseimage file to an external hard drive so I can move my documents and files to the freshly-installed OS. I've tried creating a Restore Set in SilverKeeper, setting the Destination as the .sparseimage backup file and the Source as the external hard drive mount, but this operation just results in a copy of the .sparseimage file being created in a new folder on the external drive; the files saved in the original backup are not extracted to the external drive. I'm trying this process because even though mounting the .sparseimage backup in OSX will allow me to browse the file system, the files in the user folder are not visible (and they're not just hidden). And this despite the fact that the original backup operation completed successfully and created a sparseimage file of 122GB - the same size as the used space on the original drive. Any help getting the files back out of this .sparseimage file would be tremendous. Thanks!

Thanks for the thoughts, Kappy. I have contacted LaCie as well; just waiting to hear back. <fingers crossed> Since it doesn't directly bring LaCie any revenue, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask around here as well since I got it from Apple: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/silverkeeper.html
For some reason when you do a restore set with SilverKeeper the destination has to be the location of your (previous) backup, and the source has to be the location you want to send the restore to. Believe me, it doesn't make much sense to me either; I guess the idea is that you're sending a previous backup back to the source.
As I mentioned, I can mount the image and browse it in Finder, but I can't access the files I need. I did get an 'alias not found' message (or something like that) at one point but am not seeing that at the moment. As far as I know the file is not encrypted; at least I haven't been prompted for a key/password.
I didn't have access to a big enough spare drive at the time I was making this backup and so had to resort to creating an image file that I could send to a network share. I probably will pass on SilverKeeper in the future, but it seemed like a good bet at the time...
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An corrupted EFTFile1.sparseimage has appeared on my iMac but cannot deleted

Hello guys! I need real hands-on practical help here, please.
I have already asked for help in here but didn't manage to get clear step by step help. Only got confusing redirection to other posts and very technical advice which really confuses me.
First of all, I have an iMac8,1 with Snow Leopard 10.6.7. Memory 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, and before the problem occured I had about 260-270 of free GB out of more than 300 GB.
I have discovered that my recycling bin contained a folder Recovered Files with a file EFTFile1.sparseimage. I only noticed it when I tried to Secure Empty the Trash after running the tool Secure Delete Free Space from Internet Cleanup by SmithMicro (I don't know if this might be the cause of the problem).
When I got to deleting stuff from the Trush I noticed it was taking too long, so I decided to transfer the various files out of the trush and delete them individually. When I reached the EFTFile1.sparseimage I discovered this was about 261 GB in size - when I tried opening it, it said the following:
The following disk images couldn't be opened. Reason: corrupt image
After reading some online forums, I understand now that by deleting this sparseimage file I should be able to recover the free space. Some people suggested to use Terminal. Their instructions have been very confusing and also when I attempted once in Terminal, before submitting anything, a warning said I might loose important files. So, I stayed well away!!!
I want to stress, this EFTFile1.sparseimage isn't something I created (some forums have mentioned the possibility that some people may have done that for other purposes). The file appeared on my mac by itself. I guess, after using the SmithMicro free space delete?!
If anyone has the patience and knows of a real solution for this problem, I would greatly appreciate your help.
Cheers guys!

This is just a guess, but that file may be part of the mechanism that Internet Cleanup uses to erase the free space. It might allocate a very large file, write erase patterns to that file, then (if allowed to complete), delete that file. Since you didn't let it complete, that file remained.
To delete that file in a Terminal session, launch Terminal, then type this command, including a trailing space, without pressing the <return> key:
sudo rm -i
Then open the trash and drag that sparseimage file into the Terminal window. You should now see the full path of that file following the space after the "-i" switch. Now switch to the Terminal window and press <return>. First you'll be prompted for your administrative password. Type it and press <return>. Next you'll be asked if you want to delete the sparseimage file. Verify that it's the right file, then press <return>. That should do it.
To terminal the Terminal session gracefully, type "exit" (without the quotes), press <return>, then quit Terminal.

How do I change the password of a sparseimage?

I searched for an answer to this question, but the information I found was out of date. Apparently there used to be a "Change password" item in the "Images" menu of Disk Utility. Now (under Mac OS 10.7, a.k.a. Lion) it seems there's just a "Change" menu, and when I try to make changes, it tries to make a new image rather than simply changing the password. The sparseimage file I want to make the change to is massive (410 GB), and I don't have room (not to mention time) on any other disks to make another copy. It seems odd that one wouldn't be able to change the password fairly easily. Thanks for any help you can offer.

i just had these question too, and i just find out how to do it on mountain lion, just go to utility disk, and select the desire sparceimage from the side bar, ( if you have the disk image open you need to exit first, or you wont be able to select the change password option, on disk utility top menu, go to > file> change password - after that you just select the sparseimage and change the password.
if disk image is mounted it wont work,

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>

FileVault/Sparseimage how do I change the directory?

After I repaired permissions from the OS X.3.5 disk I decided to see what would happen when I tried to change the password on my FileVault account. To my surprise it did change the password without any warning, but what happened was a new non-filevault, admin, account was created with the same user name and a sparseimage of the FileVault was placed inside that account along with the Documents, Library, Movies, etc. folders. I can open the sparseimage and all the data is there, but I would like the FileVault image to open as my account. How do I get the system to recognize the sparseimage. I have tried using NetInfo Manager to go to Users>Me and checking the home_loc file but that is fine. I used Disk Utility and dragged the sparseimage into the left side of DU and did the repair thing, but when I log into the user account it is just the new account with the old name and not the old FileVault account. Is there a way to get the sparseimage recognized so I can start up from it? Is there something else in NetInfo I can change. I have a backup of the data, but I would like to try and fix this without going to the old data. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If you give me terminal commands please just type them the way they are to be entered without quotation marks.
Thank you ahead of time for your help!!
Paul
G4 Quicksilver Dual 1 GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

4paul3:
I don't know much about FileVault/Sparce image, and apparently few others on this Forum do. I would suggest clicking on Discussions (under Apple Discussions at the top of the page) and type "FileVault/SparceImage" in the Search field.
You could also check the Unix Forum where there are likely more knowledgeable folk on the subject.
Good luck.
cornelius
PB G3 Pismo400, 100 GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Beige G3 OS 8.6

Help with sharing/networking an encrypted sparseimage on a LAN

I have 4 macs on an ethernet/Airport LAN, one running Lion and 3 running 10.6.8. I have an encrypted sparseimage in a 10.6.8 MBPro which I want the other computers to open and access over the LAN. When the image is mounted on one computer the others will get a message that it cannot be shared now. If I dismount it I can open it on a remote computer. I can see it on only 1 computer at a time. I have marked the mounted image and marked it shared and have even tried changing permissions for everyone to read and write.
I had this image on a machine running Tiger and did not have this problem. The mounted birtual drive could be mounted on all the computers at the same time.
The actual file exists on a User who is not an admin. I have tried putting the sparseimage in her public folder and in the Users/Shared folder without help.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA,
Bill

sdchargersfanatic wrote:
I have 2 iPads, and instead of using only one Apple ID, we set up each iPad with its own ID, and have purchased the same apps for both iPads. Is there a way to share apps from both iPads,
No - not now. You set them up with different Apple ID's. If you had set them up with the same Apple ID from the start - you could share all of the purchased apps across as many iPads as you like. The apps purchase are tied to that Apple ID and iTunes account. So if you buy App "A" for one iPad - you can't share it twith the second iPad because that iPad is linked to a different Apple ID.
can I set up one Apple ID and use both iPads for that Apple ID? If I do set up an Apple ID for both iPads to share, will I lose all the apps on both computers, or is there someway to save apps from both iPads and then download them later?
Yes you can set up one ID and use it on both. Yes you will lose the apps from if you create a third ID.
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Always backs up sparseimage on shared folder

I have recently set up Time Capsule as my Time Machine back up and the first back up, while taking a little while, worked fine.
However every time it backs up it does 20gb of back ups. Using Time Tracker, I found it is the sparseimage on my Users/Shared file that contains my iPhoto library. I have my library set up this way to share among multiple accounts and it is set up to mount for every user as per this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
When I exclude the sparseimage from Time Machine back ups it goes back to normal small backups. Now I realise any change to a sparseimage will back up the entire image but since I have set up Time Capsule I have not even accessed iPhoto. And of course if its excluded its not being backed up.
I don't think its a Time Capsule issue but I can't recall this happening when I had my USB connected hard drive that I used to use for Time Machine back ups.
Can someone offer any advice as to how best to get round this issue (i.e. not full sparse image back up every time) while at the same time allowing the iPhoto library to be shared amongst users.
Many thanks...

I've not done this, but I think what you need is a +sparse bundle disk image,+ not a +sparse disk image.+
The difference is, the sparse bundle disk image is divided into 8 mb "bands." Only the bands that changed will be backed-up, not the whole thing.
Another difference is, when you set a size for a sparse bundle, it's a maximum. The actual size will be only what you put inside it, and it can grow until it reaches the maximum.
But when you delete things from it, it won't shrink automatically. You have to use a special command via Terminal to shrink it.
Try creating a +sparse bundle disk image+ and copying some or all of your photos into it.

What's with Sparseimage Size?

I currently have a sparseimage in my Macintosh HD that has the contents of a corrupted user ID. I have changed the permissions and I can get to files and have been moving off the photos and music files to an external hard drive.
I thought that after moving and deleting those files in the sparseimage, I would see a jump in available space on my Mactintosh HD (these files came to about 8 GB), but even after emptying my trash, the available space has remained the same. What is going on? I'm thinking the sparseimage size was determined at the time it was created and that removing files does not change the amount of space it takes up. Is this so?
Once I move the files I want to keep, I will then have the option of deleting the sparseimage altogether. Will this allow me to recover that space?
-Bill
iBook G-4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.33 GHz, 768 MB memory, 60 GB HD, iPod Shuffle

Hi mark,
Your comment was very insightful. I suspect the reason the sparseimage is not shrinking is that I am unable to access it through the user ID with which it was created. I do recall that when I would log out in the past, File Vault would ask if I wanted to recover the space, which I usually did. Now that I am unable to do that due to the corrupted ID, even though the files have been removed, the space remains the same. One ancillary question: If I am not using File Vault, is that space reclaimed as soon as the file is deleted and trash emptied?
I will use the hdiutil you mentioned until I am prepared to delete the sparseimage altogether.
-Bill
iBook G-4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.33 GHz, 768 MB memory, 60 GB HD, iPod Shuffle

Sparseimage Fails Verification with Invalid Key Length error.

I recently have been having some trouble with my computer. Every time I log out of my account, all of my preferences reset. This just now started happening. It was working fine, then all of a sudden it started to do this. This only happens on my account and doesnt with the root account. On looking up solutions, I discovered that I should verify my home directory image. I logged in as a different user (root) and used disk utility to verify it. However it failed saying "invalid key length" and "Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit". When I try to repair it, it gives me the same error. I backed up my system using superduper to an external drive a while back and verified the sparseimage file that I backed up. It failed with the same error.
When I verify my harddrive it passes with no problem. Only my sparseimage file is corrupted. I would try diskwarrior but I cant afford it right now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9) 100gb hd; 1gb ram; Triple-Boot(OSX-Linux-Vista)

Would that mean that I can't turn off filevault? Way I see it is that since the image file is corrupted, I would try to have filevault unencrypt it and see if it somehow fixes it. (Since there will be no longer a filevaut image to be corrupted). All of my data in the image file seems to be fine. Everything is still there and I can access everything.
I was also thinking that I might be able to just copy everything in the image to my external, then deleting the account and create a new one, coping everything back over when im done.
I know I probably sound like a noob, but im really not. Ive had a lot of experience with my computer, just not this sorta thing. Thanks for your help.

Corrupt Encrypted Sparseimage, PrivateFrameworks and Kernel Panics

Hi Maclovers,
After a kernel panic my encrypted sparseimage with valuable data won't mount:
# hdiutil attach sec3.bak.sparseimage
hdiutil: attach failed - Defektes Image // german for 'corrupt image'
Attaching the following string:
0000b90: 2c45 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ,E..............
0000ba0: 0000 0001 6364 7361 656e 6372 ....cdsaencr
gives:
diskimages-helper(11183) malloc: * vm_allocate(size=3190173696) failed (error code=3)
diskimages-helper(11183) malloc: * error: can't allocate region
diskimages-helper(11183) malloc: * set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
hdiutil: attach failed - Speicher kann nicht zugewiesen werden // german for 'memory not allocable'
Okay, no problem I thought, Mac OS X builds on Open Source Software, so I can decrypt the sparseimage by hand (with perl) and rescue the needed data with a hexeditor.
But, the DiskImages Framework (/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskImages.framework/DiskImages) is not Open Source
From poking around with gdb and strings I learned that hdiutil uses sha,sha1,sha256,sha512 and md5. But I was unable to figure out
- how the password is expanded for the 128 bit aes key (plain md5/sha0,1,256,512 won't work)
- in which mode aes runs (ecb/cbc/ofb)
Do you know it and can you give me a hint?
Btw: from gdb:
openssl related
0x9194711c aes128_cbccipher
0x9196cd9a aes128_cfb128cipher
0x9196cddf aes128_ecbcipher
0x9196ce39 aes128_ofbcipher
calling from here?
0x97e6ba5e CEncryptedEncoding::encodePasswordHeader(Security::CssmData const&, Security::CssmData const&, CEncryptedEncoding::PasswordHeader&)
0x97e6bd72 CEncryptedEncoding::generateKeyBlob(Security::CssmAutoData&)
0x97e6bece CEncryptedEncoding::parseKeyBlob(Security::CssmData const&)
more functions
0x91946660 AESset_encryptkey
0x91946a5b AESset_decryptkey
0x9194715c AEScbcencrypt
0x919473df AES_encrypt
0x91947880 AES_decrypt
0x9194dd91 AEScfb128encrypt
0x9194de42 AEScfbr_encryptblock
0x9194df86 AEScfb1encrypt
0x9194e046 AEScfb8encrypt
0x9194e095 AESctr128encrypt
0x9194e20b AESecbencrypt
0x9194e232 AES_options
0x9194e242 AESofb128encrypt
Here's some debug info:
si hdiutil attach -debug sec3.bak.sparseimage calling DIHLDiskImageAttach with
<CFDictionary 0x3161a0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 7, capacity = 8, pairs = (
2 : <CFString 0x42898 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "debug"} = <CFBoolean 0xa080188c [0xa08011c0]>{value = true}
3 : <CFString 0x428d8 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "drive-options"} = <CFDictionary 0x3160e0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 0, capacity = 4, pairs = (
5 : <CFString 0x42888 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "verbose"} = <CFBoolean 0xa0801884 [0xa08011c0]>{value = false}
6 : <CFString 0x42658 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "agent"} = <CFString 0x42648 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "hdiutil"}
7 : <CFString 0x428b8 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "main-url"} = <CFURL 0x316390 [0xa08011c0]>{type = 0, string = sec3.bak.sparseimage,
base = <CFURL 0x3163f0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = 0, string = /Users/felix/Desktop/si/, base = (null)}}
8 : <CFString 0x428c8 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "image-options"} = <CFDictionary 0x316110 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 0, capacity = 4, pairs = (
10 : <CFString 0x428a8 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "quiet"} = <CFBoolean 0xa0801884 [0xa08011c0]>{value = false}
2006-06-13 10:44:39.197 hdiutil[11290] using helper tool at "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskImages.framework/Resources/diskimages-he lper".
2006-06-13 10:44:39.232 hdiutil[11290] connectToFramework
2006-06-13 10:44:39.233 hdiutil[11290] connectToFramework: about to ask proxy to perform operation
status proc called: initialize
2006-06-13 10:44:39.254 diskimages-helper[11291] _imageOptions: {"enable-keychain" = 1; }
2006-06-13 10:44:39.254 diskimages-helper[11291] _driveOptions: {autodiskmount = 1; "unmount-timeout" = 0; }
2006-06-13 10:44:39.254 diskimages-helper[11291] DIHelperAttach: initializing framework
DILoadDriver: checking for disk image driver...DILoadDriver: DI_kextExists() returned 0x00000000 (0)...DIIsInitialized: returning NO2006-06-13 10:44:39.266 diskimages-helper[11291] DIHelperAttach: resolving disk image
DIIsInitialized: returning YESDIIsInitialized: returning YESDIBackingStoreNewWithCFURL: entry with
<CFURL 0x3208c0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = 15, string = file://localhost/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage, base = (null)}
<CFDictionary 0x30c1b0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 2, capacity = 4, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0x406c0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "enable-keychain"} = <CFBoolean 0xa080188c [0xa08011c0]>{value = true}
1 : <CFString 0x407b0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "image-path"} = <CFString 0x30c2e0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage"}
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: entry
<CFURL 0x3208c0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = 15, string = file://localhost/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage, base = (null)}
<CFDictionary 0x30c1b0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 2, capacity = 4, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0x406c0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "enable-keychain"} = <CFBoolean 0xa080188c [0xa08011c0]>{value = true}
1 : <CFString 0x407b0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "image-path"} = <CFString 0x30c2e0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage"}
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 0 CBSDBackingStore
CBSDBackingStore::newProbe score 100 for file://localhost/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 1 CRAMBackingStore
CRAMBackingStore::probe: scheme "file": not ram: or ramdisk: scheme.
CRAMBackingStore::probe: score -1000 for file://localhost/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 2 CCarbonBackingStore
CCarbonBackingStore::newProbe: setting initial rval to +100
CCarbonBackingStore::newProbe score 100 for file://localhost/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 3 CDevBackingStore
CDevBackingStore::newProbe: not /dev/disk or /dev/rdisk (/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage).CDevBackingStore::newProbe score -1000 for
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 4 CCURLBackingStore
CCURLBackingStore::probe: scheme is
file
CCURLBackingStore::probe: not recognized URL scheme.
CCURLBackingStore::probe: score -1000 for file://localhost/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 5 CVectoredBackingStore
CVectoredBackingStore::newProbe not "vectored" scheme.
CVectoredBackingStore::newProbe score -1000 for file://localhost/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
DIBackingStoreNewWithCFURL: CBSDBackingStore
DIBackingStoreNewWithCFURL: instantiator returned 0
DIBackingStoreNewWithCFURL: returning 0x00000000
DIResolveURLToBackingStore: processing level 1 encodings.
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: entry for encoding level 1
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: entry for level 1
<CFDictionary 0x30c1b0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 2, capacity = 4, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0x406c0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "enable-keychain"} = <CFBoolean 0xa080188c [0xa08011c0]>{value = true}
1 : <CFString 0x407b0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "image-path"} = <CFString 0x30c2e0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage"}
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: probing level 1 interface 0 CMacBinaryEncoding
CBSDBackingStore::openDataFork: about to open /Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
CBSDBackingStore::closeDataFork: about to close 500000000: 4e9d dbc8 b429 00eb e882 36a3 d561 9fbd | N....)....6..a.. |
00000010: ed78 e737 a8bd 55cc f2f3 ad7a 42cd 7379 | .x.7..U....zB.sy |
00000020: 0499 4256 7ae3 df72 f032 664d c214 074c | ..BVz..r.2fM...L |
00000030: 1b84 2b0a b849 18c0 c65a dfd9 0ae8 c6dd | ..+..I...Z...... |
00000040: b6db 15ee 39ce db43 f3cf 7a33 8628 d8b3 | ....9..C..z3.(.. |
00000050: fefa 725e 148d ecda e728 3889 bcb2 bb27 | ..r^.....(8....' |
00000060: 3d78 2e88 652f 8e27 71eb a44a 98ca 3148 | =x..e/.'q..J..1H |
00000070: 0780 a593 0e20 6f81 c2a7 f17d 1d87 5b48 | ..... o....}..[H |
diskimages-helper: fileNameLength $0000009D
diskimages-helper: resourceForkLength $DAE72838
diskimages-helper: dataForkLength $5E148DEC
diskimages-helper: commentLength $00008865
diskimages-helper: MacBinary III signature ?'q? (0x8E2771EB)
diskimages-helper: header CRC $00001D87
diskimages-helper: minimum decoder version $0000007D
diskimages-helper: encoder version $000000F1
no MacBinary III signature - checking for MacBinary I or IIDIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: probing level 1 interface 1 CAppleSingleEncoding
CBSDBackingStore::openDataFork: about to open /Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
00000000: c8db 9d4e eb00 29b4 e882 36a3 d561 9fbd | ...N..)...6..a.. |
00000010: ed78 e737 a8bd 55cc f3f2 ad7a 42cd 7379 | .x.7..U....zB.sy |
00000020: 0499 4256 7ae3 .... .... .... .... .... | ..BVz........... |
CBSDBackingStore::closeDataFork: about to close 5CAppleSingleEncoding::isAppleSingleFile loadAppleSingleHeader failed with error 22
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: probing level 1 interface 2 CEncryptedEncoding
CBSDBackingStore::openDataFork: about to open /Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
CBSDBackingStore::closeDataFork: about to close 5DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: probe fails to find appropriate CFileEncoding class.
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: returning 0x0000006A
DIResolveURLToBackingStore: level 1 encoding match failed. 106.
(continuing)
DIResolveURLToBackingStore: processing level 2 encodings.
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: entry for encoding level 2
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: entry for level 2
<CFDictionary 0x30c1b0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 2, capacity = 4, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0x406c0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "enable-keychain"} = <CFBoolean 0xa080188c [0xa08011c0]>{value = true}
1 : <CFString 0x407b0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "image-path"} = <CFString 0x30c2e0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage"}
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: probing level 2 interface 0 CUDIFEncoding
CBSDBackingStore::openDataFork: about to open /Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
CBSDBackingStore::closeDataFork: about to close 5CUDIFEncoding::newProbe: failing because backing store is not UDIF file
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: probe fails to find appropriate CFileEncoding class.
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: returning 0x0000006A
DIResolveURLToBackingStore: level 2 encoding match failed. 106.
(continuing)
DIResolveURLToBackingStore: processing level 3 encodings.
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: entry for encoding level 3
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: entry for level 3
<CFDictionary 0x30c1b0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 2, capacity = 4, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0x406c0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "enable-keychain"} = <CFBoolean 0xa080188c [0xa08011c0]>{value = true}
1 : <CFString 0x407b0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "image-path"} = <CFString 0x30c2e0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage"}
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: probing level 3 interface 0 CSegmentedNDIFEncoding
checkTypeCreator: /
checkTypeCreator: returning , score 0
CSegmentedNDIFEncoding::isSegmentedNDIFFile checkTypeCreator failed
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: probing level 3 interface 1 CSegmentedUDIFEncoding
CSegmentedUDIFEncoding::isSegmentedUDIFFile backing store is not of type CUDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: probing level 3 interface 2 CSegmentedUDIFRawEncoding
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: probe fails to find appropriate CFileEncoding class.
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: returning 0x0000006A
DIResolveURLToBackingStore: level 3 encoding match failed. 106.
(continuing)
DIIsInitialized: returning YESDIDiskImageNewWithBackingStore: entry with
<CFDictionary 0x30c1b0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 2, capacity = 4, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0x406c0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "enable-keychain"} = <CFBoolean 0xa080188c [0xa08011c0]>{value = true}
1 : <CFString 0x407b0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "image-path"} = <CFString 0x30c2e0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage"}
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: entry
<CFDictionary 0x30c1b0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable, count = 2, capacity = 4, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0x406c0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "enable-keychain"} = <CFBoolean 0xa080188c [0xa08011c0]>{value = true}
1 : <CFString 0x407b0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "image-path"} = <CFString 0x30c2e0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "/Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage"}
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 0 CDARTDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 1 CDiskCopy42DiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 2 CNDIFDiskImage
checkTypeCreator: /
checkTypeCreator: returning , score 0
CNDIFDiskImage::checkExtension: sparseimage
CNDIFDiskImage::newProbe: checkExtension gives score -1000.
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 3 CUDIFDiskImage
CUDIFDiskImage::checkBackingStoreType: backing store is wrong type
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 5 CRawDiskImage
checkBackingStoreType returned score 0 type
checkTypeCreator returned score 0 type
CRawDiskImage::checkExtension: sparseimage
checkExtension returned score -1000 type
CRawDiskImage::newWithBackingStore: setBackingStore() failed. 106
CRawDiskImage: checkBackingStoreLength score: -100
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 6 CShadowedDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 7 CSparseDiskImage
CSparseDiskImage::checkExtension: sparseimage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 8 CCFPlugInDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: probing interface 9 CWrappedDiskImage
DIBackingStore::inUse: this->_fUniqueID
<CFArray 0x320590 [0xa08011c0]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
0 : <CFString 0x320dc0 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "d234881026:i316148"}
DI_kextCreateDiskImageIdentifierArray: exiting
<CFArray 0x31fd00 [0xa08011c0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 1, values = (
0 : <CFDictionary 0x321100 [0xa08011c0]>{type = fixed-mutable, count = 1, capacity = 1, pairs = (
3 : <CFString 0x321000 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "writeable-components"} = <CFArray 0x320fe0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = fixed-mutable, count = 1, capacity = 1, values = (
0 : <CFString 0x321080 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "d234881026:i1808676"}
DIBackingStore::inUse: checking against image dictionary array
<CFArray 0x3210f0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
0 : <CFDictionary 0x321100 [0xa08011c0]>{type = fixed-mutable, count = 1, capacity = 1, pairs = (
3 : <CFString 0x321000 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "writeable-components"} = <CFArray 0x320fe0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = fixed-mutable, count = 1, capacity = 1, values = (
0 : <CFString 0x321080 [0xa08011c0]>{contents = "d234881026:i1808676"}
DIBackingStore::inUse: checking our list looking for who's naughty and nice
DIBackingStore::inUse: checking image 0000
CBSDBackingStore::openDataFork: about to open /Users/felix/Desktop/si/sec3.bak.sparseimage
syncPhysicalAndLogicalForkLengths: returning 0 (cached logEOF: 1540853760, physEOF: 1540853760)
CBSDBackingStore::closeDataFork: about to close 5CSparseFile::~CSparseFile: WARNING flushing header and index nodes failed. Invalid argument
syncPhysicalAndLogicalForkLengths: entry (cached logEOF: 1540853760, physEOF: 1540853760)
: returning 0 (new cached logEOF: 1540853760, physEOF: 1540853760)
DIDiskImageNewWithBackingStore: returning 0x00000067
DIResolveBackingStoreToDiskImage: unable to resolve to any disk image class. 103.
DIResolveURLToDiskImage: resolving disk image format failed. 103.
status proc called: attach
error code: 103
status proc called: cleanup
2006-06-13 10:44:39.684 diskimages-helper[11291] DIHelperAttach performOperation: returning 103
2006-06-13 10:44:39.684 diskimages-helper[11291] DIHelper perform_operation: returning {payload = {}; "result-code" = 103; }
2006-06-13 10:44:39.684 hdiutil[11290] connectToFramework: proxy has finished operation
2006-06-13 10:44:39.685 hdiutil[11290] results are: {payload = {}; "result-code" = 103; }
2006-06-13 10:44:39.685 hdiutil[11290] _threadResultsError is 103
2006-06-13 10:44:39.685 hdiutil[11290] connectToFramework: terminating proxy
2006-06-13 10:44:39.686 diskimages-helper[11291] terminateHelper
DIHLDiskImageAttach() returned 103
<CFDictionary 0x3245a0 [0xa08011c0]>{type = immutable, count = 0, capacity = 0, pairs = (
hdiutil: attach failed - Defektes Image
si 2006-06-13 10:44:39.786 diskimages-helper[11291] -DIHelperAgentMaster terminateUIAgentConnection
2006-06-13 10:44:39.786 diskimages-helper[11291] -exitIfPossible:0 (_drivesServed 0)
2006-06-13 10:44:39.787 diskimages-helper[11291] -exitWatchThread: trying to get exit lock
2006-06-13 10:44:39.787 diskimages-helper[11291] -exitWatchThread: got exit lock
2006-06-13 10:44:39.787 diskimages-helper[11291] -exitWatchCompleted:0
2006-06-13 10:44:40.788 diskimages-helper[11291] suicide:<NSCFTimer: 0x3217d0>
cheers, felix
MBP 15" Mac OS X (10.4.6)

The key expansion does not work with a substring of the upper hash functions. Create a sparseimage with the password asdf and try the following script:
#!/opt/local/bin/perl
use Crypt::GCrypt;
my $tmp;
my $i;
my $subkey;
# asdf
%pw = (
ph => (pack "H*", "61736466000000000000000000000000"),
pl => (pack "H*", "00000000000000000000000061736466"),
md5 => (pack "H*", "912ec803b2ce49e4a541068d495ab570"),
sha1 => (pack "H*", "3da541559918a808c2402bba5012f6c60b27661c"),
sha => (pack "H*", "71f2cbe0db64c15e9e385525ad5ef854c494898f"),
sha256 => (pack "H*", "f0e4c2f76c58916ec258f246851bea091d14d4247a2fc3e18694461b1816e13b"),
sha512 => (pack "H*", "401b09eab3c013d4ca54922bb802bec8fd5318192b0a75f201d8b3727429080fb337591abd3e44 453b954555b7a0812e1081c39b740293f765eae731f5a65ed1"),
open (INFILE, "< $ARGV[0]") or die "Could not open $filename for reading: $!";
read(INFILE,$tmp,128);
close INFILE;
foreach my $key (keys %pw) {
for($i=16;$i <= length $pw{$key};$i++) {
$subkey = substr($pw{$key},$i-16,16);
#print "------using $key with $pw{$key} and substr $subkey-------";
$cipher = Crypt::GCrypt->new(
type => 'cipher',
algorithm => 'aes',
mode => 'ecb'
$cipher->start('decrypting');
$cipher->setkey($subkey);
print $cipher->decrypt($tmp);
}

Corrupt sparseimage file (not same old Filevault issue)

I'm having a problem -- I have a corrupt Sparseimage file, but none of the solutions that others have proposed have worked.
No matter what I try, it keeps getting reported as corrupt.
For example, the "half mount" tip that others have used to recover things:
$ sudo hdid -nomount SecureSparse.sparseimage
Password:
hdid: attach failed - corrupt image
That's all I can get. Launching it in the finder gives me the same thing, only in a dialog box.
Trying to verify or repair it in Disk Utility does the same.
The most verbose response I've gotten out of any utility is this:
$ hdiutil convert -format UDZO -verbose -o disk.dmg SecureSparse.sparseimage
hdiutil: convert: processing "SecureSparse.sparseimage"
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 0, score 100, CBSDBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 1, score -1000, CRAMBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 2, score 200, CCarbonBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 3, score -1000, CDevBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 4, score -1000, CCURLBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 5, score -1000, CVectoredBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: selecting CCarbonBackingStore
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface 0, score -1000, CMacBinaryEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface 1, score -1000, CAppleSingleEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface 2, score -1000, CEncryptedEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: nothing to select.
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface 0, score -1000, CUDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: nothing to select.
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface 0, score -1000, CSegmentedNDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface 1, score -1000, CSegmentedUDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface 2, score -1000, CSegmentedUDIFRawEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: nothing to select.
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 0, score 0, CDARTDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 1, score 0, CDiskCopy42DiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 2, score -1000, CNDIFDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 3, score -1000, CUDIFDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 5, score -100, CRawDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 6, score -100, CShadowedDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 7, score 1000, CSparseDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 8, score -1000, CCFPlugInDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 9, score -100, CWrappedDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: selecting CSparseDiskImage
DIDiskImageNewWithBackingStore: CSparseDiskImage
DIDiskImageNewWithBackingStore: instantiator returned 103
convert: unable to recognize "SecureSparse.sparseimage":
corrupt image.hdiutil: convert: result: 103
hdiutil: convert failed - corrupt image
I am somewhat desperate here. I have several backups of this sparse file, but they are ALL CORRUPTED IDENTICALLY. (My machine syncs to the backup server every night, and apparently it synced after the corruption happened, and clobbered the un-corrupted version.)
Does anyone have any idea how to interpret the above messages? I'd be interested in just knowing why this happened for a start, and in what way the file is corrupted...I'm willing to invest significant resources in recovering the data.
Most of the recovery utilities I've seen will only work if Mac OS X will partially mount the image, and that isn't the case here.
Power Macintosh G5 Dual 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Does anyone have an answer to this. Lots and Lots of data lost.
The tail of
hdiutil attach -debug myimage.sparseimage
syncPhysicalAndLogicalForkLengths: returning 0 (cached logEOF: 3592318976, physEOF: 3592318976)
CBSDBackingStore::closeDataFork: about to close 5CSparseFile::~CSparseFile: WARNING flushing header and index nodes failed. Invalid argument
syncPhysicalAndLogicalForkLengths: entry (cached logEOF: 3592318976, physEOF: 3592318976)
: returning 0 (new cached logEOF: 3592318976, physEOF: 3592318976)
DIDiskImageNewWithBackingStore: returning 0x00000067
DIResolveBackingStoreToDiskImage: unable to resolve to any disk image class. 103.
DIResolveURLToDiskImage: resolving disk image format failed. 103.
status proc called: attach
error code: 103
status proc called: cleanup
2006-05-25 18:36:04.170 diskimages-helper[547] DIHelperAttach performOperation: returning 103
2006-05-25 18:36:04.170 diskimages-helper[547] DIHelper perform_operation: returning {payload = {}; "result-code" = 103; }
2006-05-25 18:36:04.170 hdiutil[546] connectToFramework: proxy has finished operation
2006-05-25 18:36:04.171 hdiutil[546] results are: {payload = {}; "result-code" = 103; }
2006-05-25 18:36:04.171 hdiutil[546] _threadResultsError is 103
2006-05-25 18:36:04.171 hdiutil[546] connectToFramework: terminating proxy
2006-05-25 18:36:04.171 diskimages-helper[547] terminateHelper
DIHLDiskImageAttach() returned 103
<CFDictionary 0x323870 [0xa08011c0]>{type = immutable, count = 0, capacity = 0, pairs = (
hdiutil: attach failed - corrupt image
nebula:/Volumes/Europa/bad/Disk Images cgraham$ 2006-05-25 18:36:04.272 diskimages-helper[547] -DIHelperAgentMaster terminateUIAgentConnection
2006-05-25 18:36:04.272 diskimages-helper[547] -exitIfPossible:0 (_drivesServed 0)
2006-05-25 18:36:04.273 diskimages-helper[547] -exitWatchThread: trying to get exit lock
2006-05-25 18:36:04.273 diskimages-helper[547] -exitWatchThread: got exit lock
2006-05-25 18:36:04.273 diskimages-helper[547] -exitWatchCompleted:0
2006-05-25 18:36:05.273 diskimages-helper[547] suicide:<NSCFTimer: 0x320770>

Sparseimage says not enough room to move items, even when there is

Hi. I've created and used sparseimages successfully in the past for storing content that I want to be kept secure. Today though, I created a new sparseimage of 20GB using Disk Utility. When I tried to move files into it that were much smaller than 20GB (like 4GB), it wouldn't let me move them into the new sparseimage, and instead told me that there wasn't enough free space. This has never happened to me before, and I'm not sure why an empty sparseimage, created to hold up to 20GB, won't let me transfer files into it. I have 23 GB remaining on my hard drive in general, so it shouldn't be a problem of not enough space to make the copy. Thanks for any advice!

It would appear that you need much more free space on your Boot volume then, even if you have plenty of space on the external for the DMG, the boot drive will still need space to use for VM & Temp files for making it on the external Drive.
You're in danger of corrupting the Internal drive with that little space, not to mention the great speed reduction.
In a pinch, there are ways to set VM to use an external drive, but I don't recommend it.

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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