Hi
I have had a severe problem with Parallels Beta 3120 two days ago. Here's what happened:
I had Parallels up and running from my Bootcamp partition in the background when I connected a USB stick to my MacBook in order to copy some files over from my PC. Note: Parallels was set to autoconnect USB devices. After pluggin in the stick, Parallels cpu usage went to 100%. I ignored this, finished copying the files, unplugged, and then switched to Parallels in order to see what the problem might be.
By then, I was unable to shutdown Windows. I noticed a request window, telling me that a USB device was unavailable, but I could not click OK or Cancel (just no reaction). I tried to terminate Parallels from the dock, then from the activity display, but no success. I decided to shutdown Mac OS X, but when I tried to close my applications they would not react either. Finally, my whole system was frozen. I could move the mouse pointer, but nothing else showed any reaction.
There was no way but to hard shutoff my Macbook by pressing the on/off switch for several seconds. When I switched it back on and tried to logon again, a bad surprise awaited me: my Mac told me I had to immediately hard-reboot. But the hard-reboot did not make things better. Whenever I logged on, I was told to reboot the machine.
I tried to logon as another user, and that was successful. I finally found out that Paralles had corrupted my first user's personal file vault. Eventually, I had to delete and re-establish the user, and I was unable to recover or restore any user data.
I have now switched off autoconnect and placed the Parallels directory somewhere outside my user's path, so as to avoid such a total data corruption. But please fix tis problem before you release the next version!
I have had a severe problem with Parallels Beta 3120 two days ago. Here's what happened:
I had Parallels up and running from my Bootcamp partition in the background when I connected a USB stick to my MacBook in order to copy some files over from my PC. Note: Parallels was set to autoconnect USB devices. After pluggin in the stick, Parallels cpu usage went to 100%. I ignored this, finished copying the files, unplugged, and then switched to Parallels in order to see what the problem might be.
By then, I was unable to shutdown Windows. I noticed a request window, telling me that a USB device was unavailable, but I could not click OK or Cancel (just no reaction). I tried to terminate Parallels from the dock, then from the activity display, but no success. I decided to shutdown Mac OS X, but when I tried to close my applications they would not react either. Finally, my whole system was frozen. I could move the mouse pointer, but nothing else showed any reaction.
There was no way but to hard shutoff my Macbook by pressing the on/off switch for several seconds. When I switched it back on and tried to logon again, a bad surprise awaited me: my Mac told me I had to immediately hard-reboot. But the hard-reboot did not make things better. Whenever I logged on, I was told to reboot the machine.
I tried to logon as another user, and that was successful. I finally found out that Paralles had corrupted my first user's personal file vault. Eventually, I had to delete and re-establish the user, and I was unable to recover or restore any user data.
I have now switched off autoconnect and placed the Parallels directory somewhere outside my user's path, so as to avoid such a total data corruption. But please fix tis problem before you release the next version!