Why does time machine backup disk images?

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Why does time machine backup disk images?

I have Time Machine backing up my folders on my Time Capsule but when I look at the Time Capsule drive in the Finder it shows one Sparse Disk Image Bundle. If I lose a folder on my iMac, how can I easily get the folder off of the Time Capsule? Is there a reason Time Machine and Time Capsule is making this Disk Image and not simply dumping folders on there?

Time Capsule-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jul 22, 2013 8:19 AM

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mende1

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Jul 22, 2013 8:22 AM in response to tommorsebrown

Welcome to Apple Support Communities

If you lose a folder, you just have to open Finder, go to the folder where that folder was and open the Time Machine application, so you will be able to navigate through your backups and restore the folder > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

Time Machine always create sparsebundle disk images when you are backing up to a network drive

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