In relation to your response to my message:
and your response to MikeBee's:
In reference to my suggested solution: check again to make sure that you didn't make a typing mistake. If the "parallels-vm-directory" folder really doesn't exist, then that explains why you have a problem.
Did you type
cd ~/Documents
mkdir .parallels-vm-directory
with the period in front of "parallels-vm-directory"? And did you type
~/Documents/.parallels-vm-directory
in the dialog that appeared when you went to Go to Folder . . ." from the Finder's "Go" menu?
Also, is "Documents" in your home folder an actual folder, or is it an alias? In my case, I made "Documents" an alias to a partition on which all of my documents are stored. This caused a problem, since the ".parallels-vm-directory" folder was not created on the partition when Parallels.app was installed because the installer expected an actual folder. In order to fix it, I had to replace the alias to my documents partition with a symbolic link. An alias and a symbolic link look identical (in a "Get Info" dialog, both have the same icon and both are identified by type as "Alias"), but they behave quite differently. Following the process that I outlined eliminated the problem immediately.
If this is the case with you, you can create a symbolic link easily. First, trash the documents alias. Then open Terminal and type
cd ~
ln -s /Volumes/PartitionName Documents
where PartitionName is the name of your documents partition.
While MikeBee's suggestion in most cases fixes problems of the type that you report, in special cases such as mine, it does not suffice. You haven't explained your problem in sufficient detail for me to know which solution would work. However, if the "~/Documents/.parallels-vm-directory" folder truly does not exist, then this is a tip-off to the source of your problem.
As always, given the situation, YMMV.
Last edited: Mar 18, 2007