Can't compress .pvm in Finder

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by xochi, Jan 4, 2009.

  1. xochi

    xochi Member

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    In 10.5.6, after running parallels compressor on my VM to shrink it, I then quit parallels. I then righ-click the .pvm file in the Finder and choose "Compress ". Instead of compressing the file to a .zip file, I immediately get a dialog box saying "Copy: An error occurred while adding "" to the archive."

    If, instead, I first duplicate the .pvm file in the finder, then I'm able to compress the copy just fine.

    I'm wondering if parallels is leaving some files open?
     
    xochi, Jan 4, 2009
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  2. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    Could you reproduce situation again?
    I am not able to reproduce it on version 3 and 4
     
    John@Parallels, Jan 19, 2009
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  3. Hannu Aronsson

    Hannu Aronsson Bit poster

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    Same problem, success after restart

    I had the exact same problem. I restarted my MacBook and was able to compress the .pvm virtual machine image into a .zip file in Finder as expected.
     
    Hannu Aronsson, Apr 2, 2009
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