How To Shrink Sparsebunble Image in Mac OS X

Sparsebundle, such as the image file used for Time Machine backup over network, doesn’t shrink even when the content has reduced in size. This is how you shrink the image file to reclaim some disk space: hdiutil compact path/to/sparsebundle

This is probably the best Time Machine migration How-to guide

I found this guide and I am doing it right now to move my Time Machine backup to Wireless again. It is actually very straight forward and doesn’t need any third party software. I will report if I have success. This guide is only for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard though, since it is… Continue reading This is probably the best Time Machine migration How-to guide