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Some possible fixes if FileVault goes awry
Authored by: rasalghul on Apr 13, '05 10:51:40PM

This post and the replies were a great help to me. My G5 wouldn't wake from sleep, so without thinking much of it, I restarted. When it came back up, everything in my home folder was gone. I simply found the .sparseimage, and I was set. Thanks.



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Some possible fixes if FileVault goes awry
Authored by: geishaslave on Sep 01, '05 02:26:14AM

Hello everyone.

Thanks for reading this.

Just wanted to report that I had a client with the same issue described by mike666 and I was able to resurrect a corrupt .sparseimage file using a similar strategy.

What I did was log into an admin account then repair the .sparseimage file using Disk Utility. Though the repair said it was successful, from the user's account Disk Utility would fail with Verify or Repair citing 'invalid key length' and error -9972.

I double clicked on the .sparseimage icon in the left pane of Disk Utility and the greyed out icon of the mounted volume appeared. I then ran DataRescueX 10.4.3 to recover what was possible. DiskWarrior will probably also work. The Verify then click Stop trick did not work for me.

Perhaps my multiple attempts to repair the .sparseimage file fixed some of the problem enough to get it mounted under Disk Utility?

Anyway, the machine was a G5 PowerMac with Panther 10.3.9.

Thanks mike666 and I hope the above is helpful to other poor souls who put their faith in FileVault and did not have a backup.



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