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Originally Posted by CharPatton
Interesting. This answers the question from a practical standpoint, but I'm intellectually curious to know what is going on with the encrypted source disk image versus the mounted (unencrypted) disk image.
Is it correct to state that the encrypted source disk image stays unchanged the whole time the data on the mounted (unencrypted) disk image is being read and written to? And that the encrypted source disk image is only changed when the mounted (unencrypted) disk image is ejected (unmounted)?
As always, thank you for educating those of us who are newbies!!!
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I thought the data in an encrypted disc image stays encrypted, and is only decrypted when it is copied out of the image. I've used some very large encrypted images, and to decrypt 20-30GB of data would take an age upon mounting if the entire image was then decrypted.