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Thanks for reading and for any advice. Parallels was trouble-free until Yosemite, now some issues.
1. On installing Yosemite I got a warning that Parallels was incompatible with it, even though I had paid to upgrade quite recently. It seemed to work anyway, and I've since done one other Parallels upgrade - free - but my Mac disk still includes Parallels in an "Incompatible Software" directory. Can I just delete it?
2. Yesterday I tried to run Windows and Parallels informed me that the VM had been moved or deleted. Not by me! The only thing I can suspect is that I recently acquired software from the Mac App Store called "Privacy Scan" which deletes various types of files, maybe including something critical to Parallels? If not, all else is the same on my system and I'm not careless, how could the sudden disappearance occur?
3. Without thinking enough I told Parallels to create a new VM. Ouch! Hours of installing Windows and Office and their updates again have just been completed! Could I have taken other actions to recover the VM? (Links to articles would be great, thanks.)
4. My Windows 7.pvm is 29.2 Gb in size for JUST Windows 7 and the four main Office apps, nothing else. I don't think it was that big before, and I believe my disk free space has shrunk quite a bit. If I'm correct in guessing that much of the first VM may be still living there, can I clean it out?
Thanks in advance for any advice, ideas.
1. On installing Yosemite I got a warning that Parallels was incompatible with it, even though I had paid to upgrade quite recently. It seemed to work anyway, and I've since done one other Parallels upgrade - free - but my Mac disk still includes Parallels in an "Incompatible Software" directory. Can I just delete it?
2. Yesterday I tried to run Windows and Parallels informed me that the VM had been moved or deleted. Not by me! The only thing I can suspect is that I recently acquired software from the Mac App Store called "Privacy Scan" which deletes various types of files, maybe including something critical to Parallels? If not, all else is the same on my system and I'm not careless, how could the sudden disappearance occur?
3. Without thinking enough I told Parallels to create a new VM. Ouch! Hours of installing Windows and Office and their updates again have just been completed! Could I have taken other actions to recover the VM? (Links to articles would be great, thanks.)
4. My Windows 7.pvm is 29.2 Gb in size for JUST Windows 7 and the four main Office apps, nothing else. I don't think it was that big before, and I believe my disk free space has shrunk quite a bit. If I'm correct in guessing that much of the first VM may be still living there, can I clean it out?
Thanks in advance for any advice, ideas.