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  diskimages helper me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-01-17 03:39 +0000
    Re: diskimages helper Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-17 16:52 +1300
      Re: diskimages helper me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-01-17 06:45 +0000
    Re: diskimages helper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-17 15:02 +0000
      Re: diskimages helper me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-01-17 18:34 +0000
        Re: diskimages helper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-17 21:47 +0000
    Re: diskimages helper Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-18 02:14 +0000

#68473 — diskimages helper

I have an external drive with a sparse bundle disk image on it. I plug 
in the drive, mount the image, update and unmount the image. Then when I 
try to eject the drive I can't, because a dozen or so of the sparse 
bundle bands are "in use" by diskimages helper. I have to go to 
Activity Monitor and force quit diskimages helper to be able to eject 
the drive.

Does anyone know why diskimages helper is behaving like that? Is there 
anything I can do about it short of the force quit song and dance I'm 
currently doing?

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#68474

In article <m9clia$7l3$1@dont-email.me>, Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca>
wrote:
> 
> I have an external drive with a sparse bundle disk image on it. I plug 
> in the drive, mount the image, update and unmount the image. Then when I 
> try to eject the drive I can't, because a dozen or so of the sparse 
> bundle bands are "in use" by diskimages helper. I have to go to 
> Activity Monitor and force quit diskimages helper to be able to eject 
> the drive.
> 
> Does anyone know why diskimages helper is behaving like that? Is there 
> anything I can do about it short of the force quit song and dance I'm 
> currently doing?

Make sure you actually Quit any applications that may have used files
from the disk image. Even though you may have closed the file's window,
some applications do behave naughtily and still stop a volume from
being ejected (in some cases I think it's to do with a badly programmed
Open / Save routine that keeps the location "current" for next time you
bring up an Open / Save window).

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#68477

Your Name <YourName@yourisp.com> wrote:
> Make sure you actually Quit any applications that may have used files
> from the disk image. Even though you may have closed the file's window,
> some applications do behave naughtily and still stop a volume from
> being ejected (in some cases I think it's to do with a badly programmed
> Open / Save routine that keeps the location "current" for next time you
> bring up an Open / Save window).

Thanks but that's not it. Plug in drive, mount image, update image with 
SuperDuper, quit SuperDuper, unmount image. That's it. diskimagehelper 
seems to like to "use" a dozen of the sparsebundle's 30,000+ bands for 
some reason. 

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K.

Lang may your lum reek.

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#68481

On 2015-01-17, Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
> I have an external drive with a sparse bundle disk image on it. I plug 
> in the drive, mount the image, update and unmount the image. Then when I 
> try to eject the drive I can't, because a dozen or so of the sparse 
> bundle bands are "in use" by diskimages helper. I have to go to 
> Activity Monitor and force quit diskimages helper to be able to eject 
> the drive.
>
> Does anyone know why diskimages helper is behaving like that? Is there 
> anything I can do about it short of the force quit song and dance I'm 
> currently doing?

I'd guess there is either a bug in SuperDuper causing diskimages helper
to retain the image, or a bug in diskimages helper itself. While the
former seems more likely to me, it's hard to say without more evidence
and diagnosis. I wonder if other SuperDuper users have experienced this
problem.

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#68485

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> I'd guess there is either a bug in SuperDuper causing diskimages helper
> to retain the image, or a bug in diskimages helper itself. While the
> former seems more likely to me, it's hard to say without more evidence
> and diagnosis. I wonder if other SuperDuper users have experienced this
> problem.

Thanks but I'm not sure sure about that either - Superduper modifies the 
mounted disk image. When it's done and it quits, I can unmount the disk 
image just fine. It's the volume that *contains* the .sparsebundle that 
won't unmount. SuperDuper never directly touches that volume. 

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K.

Lang may your lum reek.

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#68488

On 2015-01-17, Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I'd guess there is either a bug in SuperDuper causing diskimages helper
>> to retain the image, or a bug in diskimages helper itself. While the
>> former seems more likely to me, it's hard to say without more evidence
>> and diagnosis. I wonder if other SuperDuper users have experienced this
>> problem.
>
> Thanks but I'm not sure sure about that either - Superduper modifies the 
> mounted disk image. When it's done and it quits, I can unmount the disk 
> image just fine. It's the volume that *contains* the .sparsebundle that 
> won't unmount. SuperDuper never directly touches that volume. 

Not sure about what? It's either a SuperDuper problem or a
diskimages-helper problem, like I said. If it were me, I would note the
exact time of the SuperDuper backup, and then look at the console and
system.log files for any errors within the same time span, which is your
best chance of gaining insight into error conditions that may be causing
the problem.

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JR

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#68501

Okay, so one time? In band camp? Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca> was all, like:
> I have an external drive with a sparse bundle disk image on it. I plug 
> in the drive, mount the image, update and unmount the image. Then when I 
> try to eject the drive I can't, because a dozen or so of the sparse 
> bundle bands are "in use" by diskimages helper. I have to go to 
> Activity Monitor and force quit diskimages helper to be able to eject 
> the drive.

> Does anyone know why diskimages helper is behaving like that? Is there 
> anything I can do about it short of the force quit song and dance I'm 
> currently doing?

What version of the OS? It works fine here on 10.10. It takes a minute
or two after I eject the drive, maybe.


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