Restoring Parallels 11 from Time Machine

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by RobertW11, Sep 10, 2016.

  1. RobertW11

    RobertW11 Bit poster

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    My Mac has got horrendously slow over a period of time and it's now time to bite the bullet and rebuild it from scratch with a clean new build.

    I seem to have lost / deleted the install files for Parallels so can I simply restore my Parallels environment in its entirety from my Time Machine backup? I particularly don't want to have to reinstall the Windows XP image I'm still running to support some ancient programs I rely on that don't work on anything later!

    Any advice as to how to achieve this would be most welcome.
     
    RobertW11, Sep 10, 2016
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  2. Guna@Parallels

    Guna@Parallels Parallels Support

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    Hi @RobertW11
    Please make a manual back up of your Windows XP virtual machine by copying its .pvm file to the external hard drive.
    Are you using Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac? If so, download and install Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac after the Mac is rebuilt and move the.pvm file to the Mac hard drive.
     
    Guna@Parallels, Sep 10, 2016
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