Renamed icon on the desktop, now icon won't work

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by PerryK1, Dec 18, 2015.

  1. PerryK1

    PerryK1 Bit poster

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    I renamed the icon on my Desktop, and now The Icon won't work anymore.
    Telling me that it cannot find .......
    So I trashed it.
    Is there a way to create a new icon on my desktop for my Windows bootup ?
    and if not, what is the original name for the icon? I tried "Parallels" "PARALLELS" but none of them work.
    All I did was Rename..
     
  2. marat_t

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    Hi,
    Parallels Desktop creates just a virtual machine symbolic link on the Desktop. You can create it yourself:
    1. Open Terminal from Finder > Applications > Utilities
    2. In Terminal type "cd ~/Desktop" (without quotes) and hit Enter to change working directory to Desktop
    3. In Terminal type "ln -s " (without quotes, note the space after "s")
    4. Open Finder and locate VM .pvm bundle (default location is ~/Documents/Parallels) > drag and drop .pvm bundle from Finder window into Terminal window. The command in Terminal now will look like:
    ln -s /Users/<username>/Documents/Parallels/Windows\ 7.pvm
    5. In Terminal hit space and enter desired name of the link (icon) in the quotes, e.g. "Windows 7". Finally command will look like
    ln -s /Users/<username>/Documents/Parallels/Windows\ 7.pvm "Windows 7"
    6. Hit Enter. That's it
     
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  3. PerryK1

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    Oh, that way it creates the icon back? never knew that.... Guess happens if your new to Mac and this program :)
     
  4. marat_t

    marat_t Pro

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    Hi Perry,
    Parallels Desktop will not create icon back automatically, this is done once during VM installation) but you can do it manually following steps above =)
    BTW, you can also create just an alias:
    - Open Finder and locate VM .pvm bundle (default location is ~/Documents/Parallels) > right-click it > Make Alias.
    - Now move alias on the Desktop and rename it
     
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