Re: Repairing a time machine sparsebundle

Although all of this is true, as it turns out, I know of only one disk management tool that will even attempt to repair a Time Machine volume, because the volume architecture is so baroque -- and that is Disk Utility. If you try to repair the volume with Disk Warrior, it will flat out tell you, "this is a Time Machine volume, and I don't do those." You have to use only Disk Utility, not fsck. If DU can't solve the problem, it can't be solved.

> On Jan 23, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Matt Penna <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Jan 23, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 2020-01-23, at 10:23 AM, Matt Penna <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> If you have DiskWarrior, I would give that a try. I believe it works on disk images and sparsebundles.
>>> 
>>>    Matt
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>> I do not have disk warrior.
> 
> Unfortunately, whenever a drive or image is not reparable like this, I’ve always had to resort to a 3rd-party tool to fix the file system; the built-in tools are not very robust. Perhaps someone else will have another suggestion.
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> It’s always been baffling to me that 3rd parties write better fix-it tools than the people who write the OSes. This has been a problem for over 30 years and it’s still as unsolved as ever, even if the file systems are a lot less fragile than they used to be.
> 
>    Matt
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