How to (maybe) recover a lost sparse image password

Like most people, I’ve accumulated a large number of backup data over the years. While I was sifting through an old external hard drive recently, I discovered and encrypted sparse image created many years ago for which I had forgotten the password. Gulp… I knew it didn’t contain anything of much importance but I still couldn’t bring myself to give it the ol’ ⌘+delete without at least spending some time trying to recover it’s contents.

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