Why is this virtual eating all so much memory?

[NathanG1]

I'm running MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with 16 GB of ram
and 120 GB of disk.

I'm looking my finder, and it's telling me that my windows 10 vm file or "Windows 10.pvm" is 65 GB.
This seems like a lot to me. Is there any way to reduce this?

 

[Manu@Parallels]

Hi NathanG1,
Please follow steps suggested at Link to reclaim hard drive space, it might help you in reducing the size of the PVM.

 

[NathanG1]

I only have 2.1 GB reclaimable space.

 

[NathanG1]

Turns out I had some backup files. I found this using the Windirstat program.

 

[PaulChristopher@Parallels]

Hello NathanG1,
There might be a lot of different files except the virtual machine which may take up a lot of disk space of your Mac. We recommend to scan entire Mac disk to locate large files and decide whether you need them of not. Please refer at http://kb.parallels.com/123553 to download Disk inventory tool.