Restore Parallels after hard drive crash

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delaneyrm

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My iMac with my Parallels 13 application had a hard drive failure. A new hard drive had to be installed.

From my time machine backup I recovered the Parallels folder from the Documents folder. This has the files:
Ubuntu Linux 14.04 Desktop.pvm
Ubuntu Linux.pvm
Windows 7 1.pvm
Windows 10.pvm

From my user Library I recovered the Parallels folder with the folders:
Applications Groups
Applications Menus
Downloads
Parallels Desktop

Unfortunately I did not back up my applications, so I downloaded a new Parallels 13.0 and activated it with my license key.

To restore Parallels to what it was, do I just put these two Parallels folders where they belong, or are there other files and folders to worry about?

Bob
 
delaneyrm said:
My iMac with my Parallels 13 application had a hard drive failure. A new hard drive had to be installed.

From my time machine backup I recovered the Parallels folder from the Documents folder. This has the files:
Ubuntu Linux 14.04 Desktop.pvm
Ubuntu Linux.pvm
Windows 7 1.pvm
Windows 10.pvm

From my user Library I recovered the Parallels folder with the folders:
Applications Groups
Applications Menus
Downloads
Parallels Desktop

Unfortunately I did not back up my applications, so I downloaded a new Parallels 13.0 and activated it with my license key.

To restore Parallels to what it was, do I just put these two Parallels folders where they belong, or are there other files and folders to worry about?

Bob
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Hi delaneyrm. Please copy the '.pvm' files to its original location and double click on the file to start the virtual machine. If you get a popup window to select 'Moved' or 'Copied', please select Moved and you can start using the virtual machine without any issues.
 
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