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10.4: Compact sparse disk images via contextual menu
Authored by: Nem on Mar 29, '07 08:12:25AM
Hmm.. Doesn't work with encrypted sparse disk images.

This isn't terribly bothersome to me. Another (more cumbersome) solution, is to create a new encrypted sparse disk image and just copy everything from the old image to the new image. Disk is cheap nowadays, so I wouldn't bother with the time to do this unless I really had to. ;-)

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10.4: Compact sparse disk images via contextual menu
Authored by: dpaight on Mar 29, '07 12:33:33PM

It works on my encrypted sparseimage. Perhaps you have to have the password set in your keychain before it will work on an encrypted image.



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10.4: Compact sparse disk images via contextual menu
Authored by: Nem on Mar 29, '07 03:13:38PM
You may be correct - I do not have my encrypted, sparse image passkeys in Keychain. Seems more secure to me. ;-)

I guess I could add my passphrase to Keychain, compress my image, then remove my passphrase. Sounds about the same about of work as my solution. ;-)

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10.4: Compact sparse disk images via contextual menu
Authored by: TonyT on Mar 29, '07 03:59:55PM

Works on my encrypted Sparse Images. (and I do not add the password to keychain).



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10.4: Compact sparse disk images via contextual menu
Authored by: Nem on Mar 29, '07 08:25:53PM
$ hdiutil compact myencsparse.dmg
Initializing...
  At this point I'm prompted for my passphrase
Finishing...
hdiutil: compact failed - Function not implemented

Running 10.4.9, PPC. I renamed my image from ".sparseimage" to ".dmg" after I had originally created it. I tried changing it back and running the compact again, but still no dice.

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