Reclaming diskspace

[John2005]

My win8 installation is taking up 168 Gb, even though the disk is set to 64Gb.., I can't seem to se what that space is used for!!!
In parallels settings for the WM i can see that 151 Gb is marked purple"miscellaneous", I really need to figure out what is causing this.

 

[Parallels User]

Yes, it's a good idea, compression means the free space between blocks of data in the virtual disk are eliminated, reducing its footprint.

But, I would like to comment this:

I just also wanted to say that when I had the original problem, you helped me and then said "ah, snapshots" and left me alone. It was sudden and OK, from your point of view, you had diagnosed the problem, but as a user I felt suddenly abandoned. Then the next day I could not even start Parallels due to lack of memory. I managed to solve this and learn how to delete the snapshopts but lost a couple of days of work. that not eve

I think this is unfair portrayal of what happened. Stuw DID provide links to Parallels Desktop documentation regarding Snapshots on the same post:

For more information about snapshots check Save Snapshots of a Virtual Machine section of Parallels Desktop User's Guide

He also asked you to post your problem ID, which you did and then on the same day you received the instructions by PM.

 

[WorthR]

I have the same problem (pvm file more than double the size of C drive), but when I try to manage snapshots, it says I don't have any. How can I get rid of them?

 

[WorthR]

I have the same problem (pvm file more than double the size of C drive), but when I try to manage snapshots, it says I don't have any. How can I get rid of them?

And further, when I try to make changes to PVM, it says I can't because I have snapshots. But when I try to manage snapshots, it says I don't have any.
?????