I've had severe issues with my primary Mac user account since late June. The latest is that I had to create a new user account and move my data from user account 1 to user account 2 using migration assistant and my time machine backup. In user 2 I was able to open the virtual machine (XP) and applications created initially in user 1 and which appears to reside in "users/shared/parallels", but I don't want to delete the corrupt user 1 where I made the install until I am sure I won't be deleting the virtual machine that now functions under user 2. Is it safe to delete user 1? That is, by residing in the shared directory, will the virtual machine still be available to user 2 once user 1 is gone? Please reply before 9 AM east coast time on Friday when I told Apple to call me back to move to the next step. Thanks. Stacy