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Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by themoog, Mar 27, 2007.

  1. themoog

    themoog Bit poster

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    Hi I keep getting the above error, however I don't have this VM open anywhere else? Even when I gracefully shut the VM down I still have the issue. I get this problem regularly with all my VM's please help

    Thanks

    Neil
     
  2. darkone

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    What version Parallels are you using (from About Parallels in the Parallels Desktop menu) ? This is a very old bug i thought had been fixed now..

    to resolve the issue manually, you must open Terminal from Applications > Utilities

    cd ~/Library/Parallels

    then cd to the directory of the VM having problems

    rm *.lock

    then you should be able to restart the VM.

    if your VMs are not in ~/Library/Parallels then they will be in ~/Documents/Parallels
     
  3. themoog

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    Great

    I have just got the latest version so we'll see how that goes...I thought I was upto dateish...Let see how its goes...Anyway thnks for the info it might come in handy :)

    Neil
     

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