kameroncole's Posts

I use CleanMyMac, and I did suspect that - but it doesn't delete large files unless you tell it to. I work for IBM, and we can't use iCloud for anything on the workstation - I mean, not for backup.  I can look at my iCloud, but not run any utilities.   Anyway, the odd point still remains: in Finder I can see the VM, and it is not greyed out, but in the Finder window that pops up when I try to import a VM, it IS greyed out - so I can't access it.   Now, I went to my MSDN site, and downloaded some fresh ISOs, and was able to create a new VM.  So there is something with my /restore directory that is not working - now.  As I wrote, when I initially migrated to this new Mac, I used the very same VM from /restore.  Fusion asked me the typical - Did you move it, or copy it? Anyway, it was successfully registered and worked.

>>Can you explain what you mean by "it blinks at me"?  Does nothing.  Does not open the file. I mean, it looks at first like any other attempt to open a file.  But the result is nothing. I attached the Mac specs below.   Here is the /tmp directory permissions % ls -ald /private/tmp drwxrwxrwt 19 root wheel 608 Apr 6 11:12 /private/tmp

>>Virtual machines just don't get "lost". Something changed between last week when it worked and this week when it didn't. Agreed. Hence the post. >>Copy it from /restore using the Finder and try to open (not Import) that virtual machine copy. Did this. Fusion "blinks" at me, but no machine gets opened/created. >>At a minimum you should see .vmdk files representing your virtual disk, and a .vmx file.  I only see a single vmx.lck - I guess this is locked.   Can I just remove the .lck? >>use the Finder to find the vminventory file found in your account's Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion folder I will attach this, but I did delete the VM from the Virtual Machine Library