Hi Maria,
the VM, with all the snapshots, had a size of 250 GB more or less. The new VM had a size of 10 GB. Actually, the cloned machine, with no snapshot, has a size of 127 GB which is the size I have decided for the machine to be. So, I am not currently sure how PD is designed, but I doubt it is designed in a way to constantly load all the image in memory (considering my Imac has a standard 8GB RAM size) ... I was thinking to recover unused space - roughly 96 GB - from the VM, would this create any problem or would this impact the performance of the machine?
BTW: loading time is increasing again, the hard drive works a lot, is it fragmentation coming into play here?
In addition: the VM has stopped asking what to do when an external hard drive is connected. Now, my external hard drive connects automatically with the Imac and there is no way to connect it to the VM.
Thanks,
Alberto
Last edited: Mar 14, 2019