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I've had issues with Parallels working recently and previous forum posts failed to help me at all. So I resorted to uninstalling the entire thing and reinstalling it by scooping out the files myself. The official Automatic Installer didn't work (the one that opens the actual download in finder...

i'm using parallels 14 (basic, non subscriptioni) latest paid for version, on mac os latest GA'd version. plenty of ram/HD,etc. resources and permissions and firewalls are not an issue. FW/antivirus on both source/target machines are disabled. 1. i'm aware of KB articles...