Backup Dmg File No Mountable
I have a sparsebundle file that I cannot restore from my Time Machine Capsule. However, I get the response (from Terminal) that there is no file of the name given. I suspect that I have put it in incorrectly and wonder if you could advise me as to what the correct address would be for your line. Dec 28, 2019 How to Make a DMG File on a Mac. One way to store or group files on a Mac is to create a Disk Image. A Disk Image is a file which has the properties of a separate hard drive or CD and allows for greater password protection and compression.
- Question: I have a corrupt.sparsebundle-file (a TimeMachine-backup file), that I would really like to fix, because there's some files in there that I need. I have tried using the Disk Utility app, but that didn't work. I also read that it should be possible to use the Terminal app to do this, but I've.
- You can create an empty disk image, add data to it, then use it to create disks, CDs, or DVDs. In the Disk Utility app on your Mac, choose File New Image Blank Image. Enter a filename for the disk image, add tags if necessary, then choose where to save it.
- In Mac OS X and other UNIX-based operating systems, your vulnerable data are safe by creating DMG file. DMG (Disk Mounted Graphics) files are those files which are created by the disk utility of Mac’s OS with extension ‘.dmg’. These files are actually like an image of the complete contents of hard drive.
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Great, Great, Great.
I am creating a lot of disk images at the moment for the distribution of a product and obviously I have to test those images. After mounting about 10 the Finder stops doing it's work as described in the hint. This problem exists even in 10.3.5 and I am very happy now, cause rebooting, the only solution I had figured out so far, really interrupts my work big time.
Thanks for the tip.
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DubMaster
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Backup Dmg File No Mountable Phone
It just so happens that we already built an AppleScript solution using this method; I'll paste it below for those who are Terminally challenged. As for the issue with password protected disks, this script will indeed trigger a GUI window asking for any such passwords not already stored in Keychain. I have yet to find an instance where presentation of the password box triggered the failure we're looking to overcome in this hing, but the -stdinpass switch would likely resolve it (see the man page), and could be added to this script.
Now, if you could add an 'on open' handler that handled drag-and-drop, you'd be all set! Just drag your dmg files onto the script and they would mount. No file dialog to get in the way. :-)
Hi there..
Well, I tried both versions of your script on several disk images (including one that I KNOW mounts fine by itself), and most of them were grayed out in my file dialog. My first thought was that perhaps they were corrupted, but at least one of them mounts fine on its own, and it was not accessible either.
Iphone configuration utility for mac dmg. I very much appreciate your scripting skills, but do you have any idea why I might be having such problems? Any suggestions from anyone else out there? I would really appreciate the help!
Thanks in advance,
mlaurenc
I may just be a big newbie, (and I undoubtably am), but when running this script the only items I could select when it asked me which DMG I wanted to mount were file folders and no DMG files. Even with a foler selected, 'Choose' never highlit. Am I doing something wrong?
Also, is there an applescript super newbie thread I should be hitting up before getting to knee deep in this?
by the way, rebooting still didn't allow me to mount the DMGs. I'm running 10.3.7.
Thanks for any/all help guys!
-Seth
I may just be a big newbie, (and I undoubtably am), but when running this script the only items I could select when it asked me which DMG I wanted to mount were file folders and no DMG files. Even with a foler selected, 'Choose' never highlit. Am I doing something wrong?
Also, is there an applescript super newbie thread I should be hitting up before getting to knee deep in this?
by the way, rebooting still didn't allow me to mount the DMGs. I'm running 10.3.7.
Thanks for any/all help guys!
-Seth
While this is a nice workaround - I really wish the problem would be solved instead. Very annoying. On my machine - happens everyday after about my tenth disk mount. The image actually appears to get mounted and appears in /Volumes but it shows up no where else and is impossible to access.
I must say, it doesn't happen much with me. But if it shows up in /Volumes, you should be able to refresh the finder by doing 'disktool -r'. I am writing a script that triggers mounting of dmg and the 'disktool -r' seems to solve some of my problem.
Good luck
I tried this Hint for the first time today, but I didn't appear to have the relevant utility. Typing in hd and tab brought up
hdiutil
which is not the command quoted in the actual command string in the Hint.
Anyway, I tried hdiutil, and it tried to attach the dmg, but failed with the same problem: no mountable file systems. <sigh>
Back to restarting..
from Clytie, still having trouble
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Clytie Siddall -- Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia
iBook G3, 10.3.5, all updates current
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Yeah, 'hdituil' is a typo.
Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. :-(
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Ron
I tried the applescript but nothing is highlight-able
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Same here
It won't work
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Infants are born. Children learn as they grow. Knowledge is power. Information in the wrong minds is deadly!!!
I'm trying to do a complete backup of my wife's MB from my MBP. I booted the MB into Firewire Target Disk Mode, then used Disk Utility on my MBP to make a DMG of it onto another external FW drive. Here's the log from Disk Util:
2008-03-22 15:08:32 -0700: Creating Image “TiffanyBook032208.dmg”
2008-03-22 15:08:40 -0700: Preparing imaging engineÂ…
2008-03-22 15:08:44 -0700: Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)Â…
2008-03-22 15:08:44 -0700: (CRC32 $51B6B901: Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0))
2008-03-22 15:08:44 -0700: Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)Â…
2008-03-22 15:08:44 -0700: (CRC32 $A3D7DA6A: Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1))
2008-03-22 15:08:44 -0700: Reading (Apple_Free : 2)Â…
2008-03-22 15:08:45 -0700: (CRC32 $00000000: (Apple_Free : 2))
2008-03-22 15:08:45 -0700: Reading Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 (Apple_HFS : 3)Â…
2008-03-22 15:57:57 -0700: (CRC32 $CE3D7CF0: Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 (Apple_HFS : 3))
2008-03-22 15:57:57 -0700: Reading (Apple_Free : 4)Â…
2008-03-22 15:57:58 -0700: (CRC32 $00000000: (Apple_Free : 4))
2008-03-22 15:57:58 -0700: Adding resourcesÂ…
2008-03-22 15:57:59 -0700: Elapsed Time: 49m 13.314s
2008-03-22 15:57:59 -0700: File size: 28521921586 bytes, Checksum: CRC32 $C61693A6
2008-03-22 15:57:59 -0700: Sectors processed: 312581808, 79974513 compressed
2008-03-22 15:57:59 -0700: Speed: 13.2Mbytes/sec
2008-03-22 15:57:59 -0700: Savings: 82.2%
2008-03-22 15:58:01 -0700: Image “TiffanyBook032208.dmg” created successfully.
2008-03-22 16:08:24 -0700: Name : TiffanyBook032208.dmg
Type : Unattached Disk Image
Disk Name : /Cow-e-fornia/Backup/TiffanyBook032208.dmg
Disk Image Path : /Volumes/Cow-e-fornia/Backup/TiffanyBook032208.dmg
Disk Image Size : 26.6 GB (28,521,921,586 Bytes)
Location : External
2008-03-22 16:08:24 -0700:
2008-03-22 16:10:51 -0700: Attach Image “TiffanyBook032208.dmg”
2008-03-22 16:10:51 -0700: InitializingÂ…
2008-03-22 16:10:57 -0700: VerifyingÂ…
2008-03-22 16:10:58 -0700: Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0): verified CRC32 $51B6B901
2008-03-22 16:10:59 -0700: Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1): verified CRC32 $A3D7DA6A
2008-03-22 16:11:00 -0700: (Apple_Free : 2): verified CRC32 $00000000
2008-03-22 16:32:14 -0700: Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 (Apple_HFS : 3): verified CRC32 $CE3D7CF0
2008-03-22 16:32:15 -0700: (Apple_Free : 4): verified CRC32 $00000000
2008-03-22 16:32:15 -0700: Verification completedÂ…
2008-03-22 16:32:15 -0700: verified CRC32 $C61693A6
2008-03-22 16:32:15 -0700: AttachingÂ…
2008-03-22 16:32:16 -0700: Checking volumesÂ…
2008-03-22 16:33:14 -0700: Volume check completedÂ…
2008-03-22 16:33:14 -0700: AttachingÂ…
2008-03-22 16:33:14 -0700: FinishingÂ…
2008-03-22 16:34:06 -0700: Unable to attach “TiffanyBook032208.dmg”. (no mountable file systems)
When I tried to mount the image, it went through a 20 minute verification procedure, then failed with the 'no mountable file systems' error.
I tried mounting it from Finder by double-clicking the DMG and got the same error. So I deleted the DMG and re-created it from scratch (including rebooting the MB into TDM):
2008-03-22 16:37:54 -0700: Creating Image “TiffanyBook032208.dmg”
2008-03-22 16:37:58 -0700: Preparing imaging engineÂ…
2008-03-22 16:38:02 -0700: Reading whole disk (Apple_HFS : 0)Â…
2008-03-22 17:29:22 -0700: (CRC32 $DB22F44F: whole disk (Apple_HFS : 0))
2008-03-22 17:29:23 -0700: Adding resourcesÂ…
2008-03-22 17:29:25 -0700: Elapsed Time: 51m 20.825s
2008-03-22 17:29:25 -0700: File size: 28525037851 bytes, Checksum: CRC32 $7D6B0BB2
2008-03-22 17:29:25 -0700: Sectors processed: 312319584, 79999257 compressed
2008-03-22 17:29:25 -0700: Speed: 12.7Mbytes/sec
2008-03-22 17:29:25 -0700: Savings: 82.2%
2008-03-22 17:29:27 -0700: Image “TiffanyBook032208.dmg” created successfully.