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Shrink a .sparseimage

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Mar 15, 202613507 views
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I have a that occupies 90GB of space on my hard drive despite only having 30GB of files in it. How can I reclaim the empty space used by the and compact the file?

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.sparseimage

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After some cursory searching, I found a forum post pointing to 's verb. From the page: compact image scans the bands of a sparse (SPARSE or SPARSEBUNDLE) disk image containing an HFS filesystem, removing those parts of the image which are no longer …

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