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JoshPerlmutter
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"VMWare is open in another instance" when trying to open a VM after a crash

I had my vm trying to copy a text file to the host machine. There was an issue that caused VM to crash while doing this. (windows just reporteed a generic fatal error) I now get a message that this is locked to an open VM when I try to start the image again. This is on VM Workstation 5.5.1.

A google search informed me of this helpful site, but not a similar enough issue to get help fromwhat is already posted. Has anyone seen a similar issue? is there a way to recover? or have I lost all the work on the image?

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JoshPerlmutter
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a full system reboot (thank you thunderstorm!) has resolved the issue

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