[Hidden-tech] where does the Parallels virtual machine reside on my Macbook Pro?

[Matthew S. Crocker]

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> From: "Stacy Kontrabecki" <swampdancer at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:44:53 PM
> Subject: [Hidden-tech] where does the Parallels virtual machine reside on my	Macbook Pro?
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> 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.


The application lives in

/Applications/Parallels\ Desktop.app/

Your virtual machines live in

~/Documents/Parallels/    (your Documents folder)

So you'll want to make sure your 'user 1' documents folder is backed up to user 2 before you delete it.


You can also archive the users folder (.zip) when you delete the user so you can restore it if things break

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> Stacy
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