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macwh0re

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May 31, 2008
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Not sure if this is the correct area to be asking but worth giving it a shot.

My current setup is a MacBook Air and a 2TB time capsule which I've had for about 2 years. My old setup was a MacBook Air and a 500GB time capsule from 2009. When I bought the new computer I just relied on iCloud and usb drives to get my files. Well unfortunately I left my BitCoin wallet and have since wiped my old computer and gave it to my parents. So now I broke out the old Time Capsule, plugged it into my new one so I can see it on my current mac and am trying to get the file off and keep getting different error messages. The first thing I tried was to wipe my current mac and during the setup process I would select restore from old backup. It lets me drill down to the exact backup that I need however it doesn't accept my password which I encrypted it with, however I am 100% sure it's correct.

I ended up restoring my computer to the latest backup from my new time capsule and starting searching the internet for solutions and am turning up dry. I can see the sparse file and it accepts my encrypted password but now it says "The following disk image could not be opened. No mountable file systems. I have about $600 in that bitcoin wallet that cost me like $12 so it's not a major loss but I'd love to get it back if I can.

Fingers crossed!!
 
I know this doesn't help now, but... for the future, my advice.

Stop using Time Machine.
Use CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper instead.

If you had used either previously, you wouldn't be here with this problem now.
 
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