I have run ‘hdiutil compact’ on the sparsebundle but only a very small amount of free space was recovered.I have stopped and started SpotLight on the volume to clear out any indexing errors that may have been there but no change to the free space reported. It’s often only a matter of time before Mac users wind up seeing the dreaded startup disk almost full warning message in Mac OS X, which often leads to a frantic dash around the Downloads folder as users trash unnecessary files to attempt to free up disk space.I have run Disk Utility First Aid on the volume and it runs without error.Terminal command ‘du’ on the volume says that the drive is 346G. Terminal command, ‘diskutil info’ on the mounted disk image volume shows ‘Finder’ -> ‘Get Info’ on the disk image, after mounting it from the sparsebundle, shows Capacity: 4 TB and Used: 3.98 TB - incorrect.‘Finder’ -> ‘Get Info’ on the sparsebundle itself shows Size: 376 GB - correct.My problem is that after I mount the sparsebundle as a disk image volume, the free space on it is being reported incorrectly as being far smaller than actual, so I cannot use it. (The reason for me choosing HFS+ instead of APFS is a long one and I can go into that if needed) This time the password is not on my keychain so the password needs to be entered every time it is mounted. On that HDD, I have created a sparsebundle formatted as HFS+ encrypted with 4 TB max size. The password is on my keychain so it is easy to mount but if someone else tries to mount it on their system they will need to enter the password. I have an external 4 TB HDD that I have formatted APFS encrypted.
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