Repetitive "macOS Detected" notification

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mcgroarty

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Occasionally, Parallels Desktop gets stuck in a loop where it keeps showing a "macOS Detected - Click to install macOS" notification over and over again. I can turn off notifications to stop it, but I can see in the notification center that the time is always "now" which means it's continuing to issue that notification.

Does anyone else get this, or know what causes it?

I do have both Acronis True Image 2019 and Bitdefender Antivirus installed, which are probably the only really nonstandard things I have that might conflict with Parallels. I also have 24 virtual machines, which might be more than most people, but I only have one VM actually running when this is happening.

* macOS Mojava 10.14.1
* iMac Pro
* Parallels 14.1.0 (45387)
* Acronis True Image 2019 23.4.17000
* Bitdefender Antivirus 7.2.1.6
 
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It's astonishing that after more than four years, Parallels has still failed to resolve this issue. I'm running Parallels 18 on Ventura and the infamous "macOS detected Click to install macOS." issue is still happening. All support has done is repeatedly ask customers to take screenshots and submit tech reports when it appears that a customer (@Grega3) already figured out the cause on their own back in 2020: Parallels is constantly monitoring disk access and creating this annoying pop-up every single time any app or utility such as xCode (or a virus scanner as reported by others) detects one or more disk image files on your drive(s).

Parallels support evidently believed the issue was fixed back when Parallels 16 was released because they asked people to check if it's still happening. Now we're on Parallels Desktop 18 and it's STILL happening!

Please just get rid of this useless, annoying notification altogether or provide a way to disable it. I can't imagine anyone ever wants Parallels repeatedly pushing them to create a VM. Anyone who purchases PD already knows if and when they need to create a VM.

  • Parallels Desktop ver. 18.3.0 (53606)
  • macOS 13.3.1 (a) (22E772610a)
 
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