An update to good news
I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out where my disk space was vanishing! How is it that a drive with no more than 3gb of OS and files can consume a remaining 5gb, in my case a mere 8gb VM, was beyond me. Nothing, absolutely nothing showed me where it was going. And Compressor was useless. Using the Parallels Explorer as above solved the space issue in no time. Just to be safe I used Acronis to image off to a bigger drive as per other suggestions here on the board. That at least bought me time until I could delete those pesky files. Thank God for people helping each other here.
Update
Well, after the above joy in shrinking the virtual machine by removing those hidden files I finally let compressor run its lengthy course and it compacted an 8gb virtual machine into a 3gb after about three hours. I'm quite pleased in the reduced file sizes and an uptick in performance.
Last edited: Aug 22, 2007