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Is it possible to use sparse image bundles on the Mac in the same fashion as I would use files split with Terminal's split command?

If I show the package contents of the sparse image bundle in the Finder I see the following directory structure:

token
Info.plist
Info.bckup
bands
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    |-1
      2
      3
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      .
      .
      .

The folder bands contains files that are almost all 8MB in size.
What I would like to do is upload these separate 8MB files, download them later, and put them together again in the sparse image bundle.

Would I be able to access the files on the recompiled disk image?

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You could do that, but you'll have to be careful to reassemble the bundle components properly or it won't work. I'd recommend using a segmented image instead; that way you get control of the size of the files it's broken into, and there's less complexity to reassembling it. Use something like this:

hdiutil segment -o segmentedImage.dmg -segmentSize 20m unsegmentedImage.dmg

This will create segmentedImage.dmg, segmentedImage.002.dmgpart, segmentedImage.003.dmgpart, etc. To reassemble, just put them all in the same folder (with the filenames intact), double-click segmentedImage.dmg, and it'll mount.

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