Help regarding down sizing a vmware. Hidden snapshot inside? 200 GB

[Theforest]

Dear,

I have a vmware machine that has grown to big.

The local folder is about 192 GB

If I check the disk inside vmware(win10) the size is 85 GB

From settings there are 200GB allocated.

I think there are a issue regarding snapshot. I did delete snapshots a while
back(from the menu), but I think one off the VMDK files is that file..

I have taken a backup off the folder, and when I deleted the disk an re-attached
vmdk file, I was able to boot the old snapshots.

Can anybody gives me a hint?

Disk info

Not preallocated

Multipple files

Files

Win10.vmdk

Win10-00001.vmdk

Win10-00001-s001.vmdk

Win10-00001-s002.vmdk

Etc…

Win10-00002.vmdk – This seems to be the running version

Win10-00002-S001.vmdk

Win10-00002-S002.vmdk

1. Etc.

Win10-S001.vmdk

Win10-S002.vmdk

1. Etc.

BR

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

You are right, the VM is currently running from a snapshot "Windows10x64-000002.vmdk".
In order to get rid of it, try to create another snapshot, then open the Snapshot Manager, mark all snapshots, and hit Delete. This should actually delete all snapshots.

André

[Theforest]

That solved it.

Very happy 😀

Thank you so much.