restore full app from time machine
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You can't restore a Parallels Desktop installation from Time Machine if you aren't doing a full restore, Parallels installs files in various places with the added problem that these places might vary with OS X version. Best approach is to do a fresh install.
However, this is different for VMs, If your VM(s) are not Bootcamp based you can restore them from a Time Machine backup, if Parallels was configured to back them up. Each VM completely contained in a .pvm file (actually a folder/package), typically located in /Users/<username>/Documents/Parallels/.
However, this is different for VMs, If your VM(s) are not Bootcamp based you can restore them from a Time Machine backup, if Parallels was configured to back them up. Each VM completely contained in a .pvm file (actually a folder/package), typically located in /Users/<username>/Documents/Parallels/.
restore from time machine....
thanks so much for your response. i am extremely comfortable in the windows world, but it's only been in the past 3 or 4 years that i have been forced into supporting a handful of macbooks in my organization.
that is essentially the path i chose to take. after a fresh install of leopard, and then the snow leopard update (plus a couple of gigs of downloaded updates for the OS and various apps), i created a temp user, and ran the migration assistant taking all the defaults. saved my pvm to a different folder, and reinstalled parallels. all seems to be well. currently running parallels updates.
hgt
thanks so much for your response. i am extremely comfortable in the windows world, but it's only been in the past 3 or 4 years that i have been forced into supporting a handful of macbooks in my organization.
that is essentially the path i chose to take. after a fresh install of leopard, and then the snow leopard update (plus a couple of gigs of downloaded updates for the OS and various apps), i created a temp user, and ran the migration assistant taking all the defaults. saved my pvm to a different folder, and reinstalled parallels. all seems to be well. currently running parallels updates.
hgt
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Parallels User
Snow leopard update?? If you have the Snow Leopard disk you could have installed it from scratch, without Leopard being there.
SteveJones
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I will recommend it to buy the Snow Leopard or else there are many sites in the internet where you can download it
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