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Create an encrypted disk image that grows as required
Authored by: jurg on Mar 04, '03 04:11:25AM

my sparse disk image got corrupted after a kernel panic. I could reproduce this behaviour by making a new one and do a hard reset of my mac (tried that several times). My non-sparse disk survives. In both cases I used encrypted images and journaling on the partition where the image was on.

For the moment I stich to non-sparse disk images...



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Corrupt encrypted sparse image
Authored by: mickerf on Apr 20, '03 08:23:50AM

I've run into the same problem - my encrypted sparse image
became corrupt after a hard reset... I've tried everthing I can
think of and searched thoroughly and haven't come up w/
anything yet. Anyone know of any documentation on recovering
corrupt disk image files?



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Corrupt encrypted sparse image
Authored by: John Kiniston on Jun 07, '03 02:39:15AM

Have you had any luck in fixing your corrupt image?

I just lost some data to a crash that killed my image and I'd like to get that data back.



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HOW-TO: Recover a corrupt encrypted sparse image
Authored by: Krioni on May 22, '08 11:54:13AM
There's a hint here on this site that has a solution on how to recover a corrupt encrypted sparseimage:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070419082314524&query=corrupt%2Bsparseimage

Make sure to read the whole conversation there, since there are some issues to consider.

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Create an encrypted disk image that grows as required
Authored by: optimusprime on Feb 11, '05 01:08:41PM

This appears to be the same corruption that happens File Vaulted home directories. FileVault uses encrypted sparse images also. My Vaulted home dir got corrupted a couple weeks ago, but luckily I had a recent backup.

I would avoid sparse images until they are more reliable if you care about the data on them.



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Create an encrypted disk image that grows as required
Authored by: netguy45 on May 01, '06 12:53:30PM

The corrupted sparse disk image after a hard-reset problem is still present in 10.4.6



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