snapshot could not finsh, no disk space left

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ralfb1

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I have started a snapshot from my windows 7 machine. It started, and after a few hours my Mac told me, that he is running out of disk space.
Somehow the snapshot stops.
But my disk remains full. The pvm file is 894 MB, and the snap shot manager tells me that there is no snapshot. How can I delete this obiviosly partial snapshot?
 
Hello Arun,

as far as I understand the article it gives general explanations on snapshot.
But it does not help with deleting the probably damaged or unfinishes snapshot.
Why does the parallels not check the remaining space on the harddisk BEFORE
it fills up until the mac dies?
 
Hi @ralfb1, you can try to merge all snapshots as one by following the steps provided below and then delete the snapshot

1.In Mac OS X, go to Applications > Utilities and launch Terminal.
Paste the command below into Terminal as is (do not hit Enter yet):

prl_disk_tool merge --hdd

Find your virtual machine in Finder. Right click on the .pvm file of your virtual machine and choose Show Package Contents.

Drag your WindowsXXX.hdd file into Terminal and drop it inside the window. In Terminal you will see a similar outcome: prl_disk_tool merge --hdd /Users/Username/Documents/Parallels/Windows\ 7.pvm/Windows\ 7-0.hdd

Please note there should be a space between --hdd and /Users/Username... Press Enter key to start merging Snapshots. Once this is done, try to compress virtual hard disk again.
2. Now if you go to Actions > Manage snapshot, you will find only one snapshot and you can delete it if you do not want it.
We would strongly recommend you to take a back of virtual machine before you delete snapshots.
 
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