My virtual machine is GONE

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desperate

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Help!
What is happening here? I burned a CD via my virtual machine, when the battery of my Macbook went down. Now I want to start my virtual machine (Windows XP) and... my virtual machine is GONE! The directory is empty and Parralels asks me to install a guest OS. What can I do now? If I reinstall the guest OS, will my data be gone? Will my PhD thesis be GONE??? What the hell is going on here? How can I find back my old virtual machine?
Many thanks in advance for any help or advice.
 
Sad to know about the issue. I hope you have backup of your Thesis work outside of the VM as well ....

Did you check your guest OS for parallels HDD files ??? I see you are on Macbook ... did you check ,

finder -> Your username -> Documents -> Parallels -> <Your Windows> -> *.hdd files ???

Let me know
 
Exactly that is the problem, because this directory is empty! The whole Parralels directory is empty. Sure I have some backups from the work, but not from the last two days. Bad enough.
Meanwhile I start to accept that I have to reinstall my guest OS and repeat those two days of work, but what I would really like to know is first of all, what happened here, and of course, how can I prevent this from happening again?
If a gap in the current supply has THESE effects then something has to be wrong, right? Please don't tell me this is normal!!!
 
same thing here

I cannot believe it, but 1 hour ago my windows VM was fine, and now it is gone. The only thing I did in between is download updates for my mac. Now, it is as if I never installed the VM. All the programs are gone, no trace at all. Can someone at Parallels please post a reply? This is pretty ridiculous, and direct customer service is warranted.

thank you,
matt
 
Sorry to say this, but... forget it. After some time trying, I finally gave up and reinstalled everything. Seems that the update was the problem. Since I updated, I repetetively got problems. After reinstalling it SEEMS to work. I do daily data backups and hope for the best....
Good luck to you
 
I've never had the problem you describe and hope I never do, but I might suggest that once you've got your VM tweaked exactly the way you want it, copy that whole Username -> Documents -> Parallels directory to a separate drive. That will save tons of time should this ever happen again. Also, I would never save important data to the default location on the C partition of my virtual drive. I always save to a folder on another drive in my mac pro.

I don't suppose you are using Time Machine in Leopard. Haven't had to restore from that yet so I don't know how helpful that will be. Peace, BJ
 
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