Hugh Watkins
Forum Maven
thank you Tim
the fix worked a treat
but my reply to you bounced twice
going to file that mail very safely
as I might need it tomorrow
regards
Hugh
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Hello Hugh,
Thank you for contacting Parallels Support. Your image is not broken, just erroneously blocked by Parallels Desktop. This defect will be fixed very shortly.
For now, here's what you need to do to remove the lock and let your VM
start again:
Solution:
1. Make sure Parallels Desktop is not running.
2. Open Macintosh HD->Applications->Utilities->Terminal
3. Run exactly the following command (better copy-paste it from this letter into Terminal as is):
rm -i `find ~/Library/Parallels/ -name *.lock -print`
4. Terminal prompts you to confirm the deletion of the file. Make sure
that the file has "lock" at the end and confirm the deletion by
pressing "Y".
5. Start your virtual machine. You shouldn't see the "already in use"
error anymore.
Please let me know how it goes. Thank you in advance.
the fix worked a treat
but my reply to you bounced twice
going to file that mail very safely
as I might need it tomorrow
regards
Hugh
===
Hello Hugh,
Thank you for contacting Parallels Support. Your image is not broken, just erroneously blocked by Parallels Desktop. This defect will be fixed very shortly.
For now, here's what you need to do to remove the lock and let your VM
start again:
Solution:
1. Make sure Parallels Desktop is not running.
2. Open Macintosh HD->Applications->Utilities->Terminal
3. Run exactly the following command (better copy-paste it from this letter into Terminal as is):
rm -i `find ~/Library/Parallels/ -name *.lock -print`
4. Terminal prompts you to confirm the deletion of the file. Make sure
that the file has "lock" at the end and confirm the deletion by
pressing "Y".
5. Start your virtual machine. You shouldn't see the "already in use"
error anymore.
Please let me know how it goes. Thank you in advance.
