Sparsebundle contents not showing in finder/terminal - Lost?

[benhaines]

I'm praying someone can help me

I've successfully unlocked my two encrypted folders, but cannot see the original files in neither finder or terminal. Oddly terminal does show up a bunch of hidden directories:

0 drwx------@ 9 benhaines staff 374 1 Dec 07:02 .
0 drwxrwxrwx 6 benhaines admin 204 1 Dec 07:02 ..
16 -rw-------@ 1 benhaines staff 6148 1 Dec 07:02 .DS_Store
0 drwx------ 3 benhaines staff 102 1 Dec 07:02 .Spotlight-V100
0 drwxrwxrwt@ 3 benhaines staff 102 1 Dec 07:02 .Trashes
1016 -rw-r--r-- 1 benhaines staff 517971 30 Jul 2009 .VolumeIcon.icns
0 drwx------ 3 benhaines staff 102 1 Dec 07:02 .fseventsd

Odd too is the fact that if I check the mounted sparsebundles in Disk Utility is shows me a number of files, although I fear these aren't the original files, but rather the many files in the Spotlight-V100 folder.

I haven't needed access to my files in a while so I haven't checked them in at least a couple of months. Also I'm pretty confident that Espionage has had the odd update here and there since I last opened the encrypted folders/sparsbundles.

Any ideas where my original files have gone AND how this could have happened?

Thanks, Ben

[greg]

[benhaines]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for getting back to me. I have managed to retrieve the right sparebundles from a TimeMachine backup.

So it seems likely that some app/process triggered a reset of the sparsebundles (not sure if that is possible). Filenames matched and espionage seemed to know about them.

Live and learn

Regards, Ben