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Old 10-26-2009, 08:03 PM
RobLewis RobLewis is offline
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Here's the short answer:

In Terminal, enter this command:

hdiutil compact "Name of your backup.sparseimage"

Then go do something else for a while.
As noted above, sparse images can grow by themselves, but they need help to shrink.
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