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What (if anything) is one supposed to do with sparse bundles?

I recently installed Mountain Lion (although I'm pretty sure that that had nothing to do with my question) and found a folder on my desktop entitled 'Previous local iDisks'. When I click on this it opens to show two sparse bundles of 1GB and 460MB.


Not knowing what to do with these I'm just ignoring them but they must have some connection with the recent ending of MobileMe ?


Could someone please give me a clue ?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 5, 2012 4:17 AM

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Posted on Aug 5, 2012 4:22 AM

Those are disk image files, presumably containing whatever was in the local iDisk folders you had set up before MobileMe's demise. Double-click each of them to mount it as a "drive" on the desktop, then examine the contents. If you need anything, copy it to somewhere else. When you've gotten everything you need, you can drag the "drive" icons to the trash, and then delete the sparse bundle files.

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Aug 5, 2012 4:22 AM in response to seonaid1

Those are disk image files, presumably containing whatever was in the local iDisk folders you had set up before MobileMe's demise. Double-click each of them to mount it as a "drive" on the desktop, then examine the contents. If you need anything, copy it to somewhere else. When you've gotten everything you need, you can drag the "drive" icons to the trash, and then delete the sparse bundle files.

What (if anything) is one supposed to do with sparse bundles?

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