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10.5: Fix Time Machine sparse images with Disk Utility
Authored by: eliotw on Fri, Nov 14 2008 at 9:19PM PST

I discovered that if the spare image file has an apostrophe in its name you can't drop it onto Disk Utility (10.5.5). I removed that single quote from the filename and the hint worked as expected, but disk utility was still unable to repair the image.