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    OK to manually delete all snapshots?

    Parallels has been "deleting snapshot" for more than 24 hours. () I'm willing to lose all my snapshots if I can get Parallels to boot Windows 10 again. Will it work if I "Force Quit" Parallels and then manually delete all Parallels snapshots (e.g., delete __.pvm/Snapshots folder and...
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    Resizing VM-HardDisk not posible

    Hi, I have a Win 7 HDD running under parallels 14 on my iMac. Since I need additional space, I tried to resize the VMs HDD. But this fails. I get the Message "Properties of this HDD cound not be changed because there are one or more snapshots". If I go to "Snapshot", there are none! But f I go...
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    Time Machine backups only of the snapshots

    Hello everyone, When I am working on Windows guest with time machine running the backup disk will fill up pretty quickly. I have the Smart Guard option with Time Machine optimisation activated, so it helps a bit, but I wanted to know if it is possible to force Time Machine to backup only the...
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    SmartGuard fails to delete old Snapshots

    I have SmartGuard set to retain 5 snapshots which is the last three daily, the last weekly, and the last monthly. That used to work, but without changing any settings, SmartGuard simply stopped deleting snapshots. By the time my VM file had grown so large that the drive it's on was running out...
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    Parallels 13, High Sierra, Windows 7Pro on a iMac 5K

    I had a VM on an external USB3 SSD drive but when I went to change the video configuration, the machine crashed hard. Now when I try to restart, I get a black screen asking for a windows install disc a status 0xc000000e Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible...
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    Reverting Snapshots

    Why does nothing happen when I use Actions>Revert to Snapshot? When I load a VM with a number of Snapshots already present and I then want to go back to a previous Snapshot I seem to have 2 options: 1. I can select a particular Snapshot from the Control Panel and click on the Delete button 2. I...
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    Snapshot snaffle...

    I've recently purchased Parallels and after a few days I created manual snapshots for a VM. Anyway, when the VM failed I wanted to go back so opened the snapshot and select the one to the right - wrong! BIG mistake. The snapshot window defaults to a size that hides the additional snapshots, so I...
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    Problems with freeing disc space after deleted snapshots

    Hi, I run virtual Win 7 Enterprise in PD 9.0.24251 on Mac OS Yosemite and MacBook Air A1466 with 24GB SSD, 4MB RAM, CPU Intel i5 1,8GHz. For each created snapshot there is separate hdd file named like "Windows 7-0.hdd.0.{xxxx}.hds" with the last time modified same as snapshot creation time. And...
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