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VM Fusion Disappearance
Hello,
Our development director runs VM Fusion on her Mac. She uses it for a virtual Windows XP machine.
She just installed an Apple update this morning. This, unfortunately, caused her Fusion to stop functioning. The program (and the data) was stored in <Mac HD> / Users / <Company Name> / Documents / Virtual Machines.localized / Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm. When I look for this location, it appears as if the entire <Company Name> folder has disappeared.
I apologize if my nomenclature is confusing. I am not very familiar with Macs. Let's assume for now that we cannot perform Restore Point Execution or other rollback maneuver. Please reply with any fixes and / or ideas to where this folder ran off.
Regards.
Our development director runs VM Fusion on her Mac. She uses it for a virtual Windows XP machine.
She just installed an Apple update this morning. This, unfortunately, caused her Fusion to stop functioning. The program (and the data) was stored in <Mac HD> / Users / <Company Name> / Documents / Virtual Machines.localized / Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm. When I look for this location, it appears as if the entire <Company Name> folder has disappeared.
I apologize if my nomenclature is confusing. I am not very familiar with Macs. Let's assume for now that we cannot perform Restore Point Execution or other rollback maneuver. Please reply with any fixes and / or ideas to where this folder ran off.
Regards.
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It appears as though the account may have been deleted. She has not lost any other documents or settings.
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Would a simple update delete a whole user account?
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Um, bump?
It's possible, if you didn't backup the Mac beforehand.
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Thanks, I'll check it out. My boss thinks he can pull a back up from somewhere if we cannot find the profile. Moral: Yay for consistent back-ups!
indeed.
Moral of the story, perform a full backup before you make any changes to the OS, or download random Updates (remind you Boss, politely!)
It looks like the account has been reset.
I assume she may have also lost other documents, and settings, has she notice a desktop change, and possibly desktop settings?