Accessing iCloud sparsebundle on iPad

My wife stores an encrypted sparsebundle in iCloud. She has been accessing it via her iMac. Tragically the iMac has died. She is trying to access the sparsebundle on her iPad. The sparsebundle copies (she hit the icon logged into iCloud on her iPad a bunch of times so the Files icon on the iPad shows something like 32 copies located there) are all zipped. Is there someway to unzip and access the sparsebundle on the iPad? I noticed there are other zipped files, or a least files with an an extension I don't recognize (e.g. odt) that iPad thinks are zip files.

Posted on Sep 15, 2020 2:36 PM

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Sep 15, 2020 4:04 PM in response to DesertRatR

So I think I am up against a fundamental problem of OS incompatibility. The disk image in iCloud came from the iMac. I don't think iOS has anyway to read that macOS disk image. if somebody knows if a way to do I am all eyeballs.


I can create an account on my Mac to get my wife access to her image. She doesn't like that idea. There are apps for the iOS that will store and encrypt data. Looking for a way to move the data from the the open disk image on my Mac to her iPad.

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