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micsaund

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Original poster
Hi All,

I just upgraded to a MBP and I'm trying to mount the Time Machine sparseimage stored on my fileserver (yeah, an unofficial TM config).

Anyway, when I look in the SMB/CIFS fileshare, the .sparseimage backup just shows-up as a directory with the plist, token, etc. and bands directory inside.

As such, I can't mount this on my new machine to hand-copy some files out. I tried Open in Disk Utility and it won't let me feed it a plain directory like that.

What do I need to do to either make this sparseimage dir show-up as a "mountable image" (as it does normally) or is there a way to force it to mount regardless of whether it's seen as a package or not?

I tried "hdiutil attach /Volumes/share/complicatedTMname.sparseimage" but that just seems to sit there and never actually mounts the image on the desktop or Volumes dir.

Thanks,
Mike
 
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