filevault ate my $HOME work

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filevault ate my $HOME work

After powering down my MBP with no reported issues, arriving at work, and booting up, I got the dreaded message that my FileVault could not be opened, and asking me if it was ok to repair it. Of course I acquiesced, and the repair did not succeed. Thankfully I had a second admin account on the machine, so I am at least able to log in.

When I view the directory structure, instead of seeing a file called user.sparsebundle, it is an uncompressed directory, with a subfolder called bands, and files called Info.bkup, Info.plist, and token., instead of seeing a file called user.sparsebundle, it is an uncompressed directory, with a subfolder called bands, and files called Info.bkup, Info.plist, and token.

Is there any hope of recovering any of the data?

Posted on Dec 11, 2011 10:47 PM

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Pondini

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Dec 12, 2011 12:38 PM in response to chaumess

The "bands" are how a sparse bundle works. All the files & folders in the disk image are spread across those bands. You can't do anything with them directly.

This might help:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/fixfilevault.html

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Dec 12, 2011 1:14 PM in response to Pondini

Unfortunately, my sparsebundle is ... unpacked, so to speak ... it appears as a folder on the filesystem ... so there's no dragging it to Disk Utility for repair.

Perhaps there is a way to re-bundle the raw data files back into a sparsebundle?

Thanks, Apple. Appreciate this one.

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Pondini

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Dec 12, 2011 1:30 PM in response to chaumess

chaumess wrote:

Unfortunately, my sparsebundle is ... unpacked, so to speak ... it appears as a folder on the filesystem ... so there's no dragging it to Disk Utility for repair.

When you do Get Info on it, what kind does that say it is?

What happens when you double-click it (to mount the disk image inside it)?

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