Restore Parallels after hard drive crash

Discussion in 'macOS Virtual Machine' started by delaneyrm, Apr 19, 2018.

  1. delaneyrm

    delaneyrm Junior Member

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    My iMac with my Parallels 13 application had a hard drive failure. A new hard drive had to be installed.

    From my time machine backup I recovered the Parallels folder from the Documents folder. This has the files:
    Ubuntu Linux 14.04 Desktop.pvm
    Ubuntu Linux.pvm
    Windows 7 1.pvm
    Windows 10.pvm

    From my user Library I recovered the Parallels folder with the folders:
    Applications Groups
    Applications Menus
    Downloads
    Parallels Desktop

    Unfortunately I did not back up my applications, so I downloaded a new Parallels 13.0 and activated it with my license key.

    To restore Parallels to what it was, do I just put these two Parallels folders where they belong, or are there other files and folders to worry about?

    Bob
     
  2. Hi delaneyrm. Please copy the '.pvm' files to its original location and double click on the file to start the virtual machine. If you get a popup window to select 'Moved' or 'Copied', please select Moved and you can start using the virtual machine without any issues.
     
  3. delaneyrm

    delaneyrm Junior Member

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    Thanks, that worked.
     
  4. You are welcome. Nice to know that it works now. Please post again for any additional queries.
     

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