How do I reclaim space from sparse bundle?

Hi all,


Using EL CAP 10.11.5


I made a my.sparsebundle that was for 2GB


- then I almost filled it up

- then I deleted 50%

- then ran the terminal command

- it Reclaimed 0 bytes

- so I deleted everything inside and reran the command

- still it Reclaimed 0 bytes


Q How do I get this working?


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how do I reclaim space from sparse bundle?

I went to terminal and typed:


hdiutil compact /Users/me/Documents/my.sparsebundle


and it succeeded but said = Reclaimed 0 bytes out of 48.9 MB possible.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jun 1, 2016 9:07 AM

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