Corrupted sparseimage: any hope at all??

[bweylock]

I've been reading everything I can find here, and my problem does not seem to have occurred to anyone else. Either that, or maybe it's so bad that most people have better sense than to ask for help.

I have a large (>50GB) encrypted sparseimage file that was recommended to me as the best way to encrypt data on a drive. It is on an external FW400.

While writing to and reading from it yesterday, there was a power failure.

Now it will no longer mount. The error message is "corrupt image."

Disk Utility will not verify it, nor will hduitil verify.

The only suggestion that seems to apply to this case is to run a terminal script to convert it from a sparseimage to a dmg and then use filejuicer to see if I can get some of my video and jpeg files out. Does that make sense?

If so, could someone give me the syntax for myDrive/myFile.sparseimage? I can't figure out where to plug my information into the suggested terminal command line.

Anything else to try? Can't use DiskWarrior or Data Rescue because it won't mount and be recognized as a volume.

Thanks!


Best,


- Bill

10.4.1, 1.5 GB RAM