"Do not back up with time machine" setting problem

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Steelbom

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Every time, I check the "Do not back up with time machine" setting (General tab of the VM's settings), as soon as I quit and start Parallels 4.0 again, it is unchecked... I do not want my VM being backed up.

I simply check that "Check Box" and click OK, then I quit Parallels.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

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Me
 
Is the virtual machine running/suspended/stopped at that moment?

In any case I would suggest to completely shut down the virtual machine before applying configuration changes.
 
Hi, no the VM was completely shut down, not suspended, stopped, paused, nor running.

I tried it this morning again, I start my computer, click the Parallels 4.0 icon in the Dock, it opens my Windows XP window automatically (but it doesn't turn it on automatically), I click Configure -> General tab, I check the "Do not backup with time machine" check box, I click OK, it says it's updating virtual machine to the left of the cancel button, it closes, I go (in the top menu) Parallels Desktop -> Quit Parallels Desktop, it shuts down, I open it again, and voila, the check box is unchecked again...

Let me know if you need to know anything else.

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Me
 
On the top menu bar press Virtual Machine and be sure the V is on Stop.
 
Confirmed, Stop was ticked, the VM was not on, I did it again, it still won't work (even with my Ext. backup drive ejected, and turned off)

This is unusual, I don't know why it's doing this, it wasn't always,
It seems like the Do not backup from TC setting isn't being saved when I quit the program.

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Me
 
I just thought of something, I can not edit my TC without putting the password, perhaps it's encountering an error regarding adding that location to the TC to not backup from there...

I will see if I can test this.

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Me
 
After testing with the time capsule settings unlocked, it changed nothing.

Not sure what to do, it's already used 220GB of my 1TB HD.

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Me
 
Anyone know what's wrong?

EDIT: I'm logged into the wrong account, and I can't get into my old one???

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Me
 
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Just to be safe, make a permissions repair with the disk utility. Maybe the permissions on these files are wrong.
 
Fixed

I managed to fix it by logging into the administrator of this computer, and do it from there, it obviously was something like that...

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Me
 
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