How to delete machine list in Dock's menu

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by MinjangK, Sep 20, 2012.

  1. MinjangK

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    I'm using the latest Parallels 8 on OSX Mountain Lion w/ MBP retina.

    I have a small problem, but pretty annoying to me.

    The image shows total 5 machine lists. However, only the last two, "My Boot Camp" and "Windows 7", are real. The others are already deleted. But, they are still shown in the list.

    There are no such deleted machine lists in "Parallels Virtual Machines" window (Window >> Virtual Machine List).

    How can I remove such deleted machine lists?

    Thanks in advance!
     
  2. BernardK

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    Same thing

    Hi,

    I'm in a trial period, testing Vmware and Parallels. I have also created and destroyed plenty of VMs, and the context menu is full of dead machines.

    There is a solution for Vmware : kb.vmware.com/kb/2004861.

    I'd like to have the same for Parallels.

    Regards,
    Bernard
     
  3. RicaurteS

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    I have this same problem. A solution would be appreciated.

    Ric
     
  4. SchroedersKater

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    Me too! There must be a .plist file or something similar somewhere.

    Who knows?
     
  5. iSergeich

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    open Terminal and enter
    rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.parallels.desktop.console.LSSharedFileList.plist; killall Dock
     
    Last edited: Oct 4, 2012
  6. SchroedersKater

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    @iSergeich:

    Thank you very much! That's it.
     
  7. DavyBert

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    Does not work in Parallels 8 wiht mountain lion?
     
  8. SchroedersKater

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    It did for me, but I could not kill the Dock process. So I did it via the activity app of Mountain Lion. You also could restart the machine.

    HTH Thomas
     
  9. DavyBert

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    here it says nog such file or directory


    Last login: Sat Oct 6 19:54:57 on ttys000
    iMac-van-Davy:~ Deathmeat$ rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.parallels.desktop.console.LSSharedFileList.pli st; killall Dock
    rm: /Users/Deathmeat/Library/Preferences/com.parallels.desktop.console.LSSharedFileList.pli: No such file or directory
    rm: st: No such file or directory
    iMac-van-Davy:~ Deathmeat$
     
  10. YanaYana

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  11. SchroedersKater

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    Ok, now I know what's wrong. The command to enter should read

    rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.parallels.desktop.console.LSSharedFileList.plist

    There is a space too many. The last part of the command should be .plist, not .pli st. Don't know why the system enters a space here. I'm not able to change this. Not even in this new answer.

    Greetings
    Thomas
     
    Last edited: Oct 6, 2012
  12. BernardK

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    At last, it works !

    First I didn't find that com.parallels.desktop... in /Library/Preferences. After reading the KB article again, I noticed that small tilde before /Library ...
    So the full path is actually /Users/<...user...>/Library/Preferences/com.parallels.desktop.console.LSSharedFileList.plist

    Thank you YanaYana

    Bernard
     
  13. YanaYana

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    I'm glad it helped
     
  14. DavyBert

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    Well, it was the space. actually i should have seen it :D this worked like a charm... like anything else on OS X :)
     
  15. YanaYana

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    Glad it helped)))
     

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