How to Restore 3.0 from Backup made in 4.0 upgrade?

HELP!

I think I have to give up on the upgrade to 4.0 tonight and need to restore the 3.0 backup made in the the "Backup and Convert" step.

I see the folder of the backup on my external drive but not sure what I should do to restore the 3.0 version etc as it was before.

I have looked online and nowhere does it say how to restore back to 3.0 from the "Backup and Convert" step in the 4.0 upgrade info.

Seems I am not the only one with problems with the upgrade, wish I hadn't tried tonight and running out of time.

Kind regards,
Mark

 

Hello MarkAlexander,

You need uninstall Parallels Desktop 4.0 using installation package (select option uninstall)
After that install Parallels Desktop 3.0 5626
http://download.parallels.com/v3/en/GA/Parallels-Desktop-5626-Mac-en.dmg

After that Parllels Will detect virtual Machine, or you will create new Virtual machine using backup hdd disk.

 

Thanks for the tip - I was wondering if I needed to drag the files over but I will give this a try. I least I still have the full backup.

Thanks Again!

 

3.0 Restore errors

I thought this would be an appropriate thread to post my particular circumstance. I also had to run a demo of 4.0 this week on a separate macbook while mine was in the shop being repaired. I made a backup of my 3.0 machine and on getting back my Macbook (whose system was hosed) tried to reinstate the old virtual machine. Parallels 3 lost my prefs and now will not accept my product key entries. I originally bought 2.x and upgraded to 3. While the program recognizes my keys, it gets an error trying to write the license to file and tells me to make sure i have the 'correct permissions'... does any of this sound familiar to you all?

Thanks,
andy

 

that does sound familiar. I had the same thing happen to me I think when I was going from V2 to V3. I was launching from a shortcut to my virtual machine. Instead, launch the parallels application directly, without opening any virtual machines. Then, once that works, try opening a VM...