Hello, after some time with MacOS and Windows Insider on an M1 MacBook, I have decided that I want to use Windows for 80% of my tasks. Libre Office works better, my favorite Text editor works great there, and I find Directory Opus much superior to PathFinder. The only thing that I prefer on MacOS is iPhone Backup/Connectivity, video files, and browsing the web (via Firefox for ARM which imakes use of 100% of the vertical screen with a userchrome file.) As a result, storing all my files (loads of photos, documents, etc., about 100 GB) in the virtual machine seems more reasonable to me, I think that will cause fewer issues because they are all on the virtual NTFS file system then. I have set up the following: parallels: 5 snapshots retained, every 8 hours. (I don't know if that's too much after I have added 100 gb of data) My hard drive has 1 TB. My virtual drive in parallels is set to 384 GB. I plan on doing an incremental image backup of windows via macrium every day, plus a versioned file backup intra-daily, fine grained every 5 minutes for the last 2 hours, then every 30 minutes. The intra-daily backups are done via permanently attached SDXD card. Editors are set to safe data every minute. So I do take measures.... But I would like to know how safe my files in the VM are as opposed to storing them directly on the Mac. Is it unwise to do that? I would buy a windows machine, but the Mac Hardware is just superior, with no fan (!!), blazing fast, excellent touchpad /keyboard. (I have sworn to myself, never again fan noise of any kind, so that reduces choices, basically every windows laptop has some shortcomings still.)
