Dead Mac? Need to grab the latest version of your iDisk files which haven’t been synced? I had this problem and had trouble locating the files..
- Download Ubuntu and burn it to CD
- Insert into Mac and hold C down when you power it on.
- After a short while you will see a menu option for testing ubuntu without installation – choose this.
- Under acccessories > Terminal type: “gksudo nautilus” this will gain admin rights to open your mac files and open a file browser. Navigate to media > disk > users > UserName > library > file sync >”UserName”> “user.name”_iDisk.sparsebundle
- Copy the sparse bundle file to a new folder called ‘New’ that you created in the media folder (do this now).
- At the top, choose: System > administration > synaptic package manager and search for ‘Samba’. Highlight it and install.
- Open a terminal (applications > accessories) and type: sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
- Search for “workgroup” and change “workgroup = workgroup” to “workgroup = insertyourworkgroupname“
- Browse to the end of this file and type:
[share]
path = /media/new
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes - Save the file and close it.
- Now type the following in Terminal: sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
- check the output to ensure that it stops and starts ok.
Then on another network PC open up windows explorer and type \\broken.mac.ip.address\share
(or on a mac, in finder hit command+k and then type smb\\broken.mac.ip.address\share
and you should see the sparse bundle file for you to copy locally.
When you get OS X reinstalled, copy over the sparsebundle and you can mount it on your desktop and get the files out that you need.