pvm files size

My Windows 10 pvm is 149GB. From within the Windows 10 VM the hard drive reports "166GB free of 255GB"; i.e., 89GB used. When I look at the drive from macOS it reports "95.84GB on disk". Either way, it looks like there's over 50GB of difference here. How can I free up that space? Some more...

I have a 900Gb Windows 10 virtual machine with 8 snapshots. After removing 4 of the snapshots the reclaimable space is still nil. Following the instructions on the various knowledgebase articles doesn't help. Could anybody advise? Regards, Christoph

Hello all - I am brand new to Parallels, so bear with me. I have cerated an VM to run El Capitan in my new Mac mini with Mojave. The size of the original pvm file was 12.34 GB. First time I ran it, and changed a few settings in Finder Preferences, it decreased in size to 11.52 GB. After...