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How do I restore a VMWare snapshot?

Recently, I was trying to copy a VMWare folder and accidently hit the [Remove Snapshot] option.

Now, regardless of what I try, I can not put the system back to it's "snapshot" state.

I am using VMWare Server Console v1.0.1 Build 29996

I also tried downloading a more recent version of VMW SC (v1.0.6 Build 91891) but it will not load the [local] host.
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So you want to power up your VM?? Or just rollback the snapshot and put the VM in the state before the snapshot?

Because if you remove the snapshot, off course you lost the snapshot and the VM state. There is no way to rollback after deleting the snapshot

Jail
If you've hit the Remove Snapshot button, you have done exactly that, you've removed the Snapshot, so you cannot Revert to back to it, because it's GONE. (deleted).

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Hmmmm.  All of the reading I have done thus far, has suggested that snapshots are NOT deleted when the [Remove Snapshot] option is selected, and that there is supposed to be a "Snapshot Manager" with an option like [GoTo Snapshot] available.

Any comments?
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Snapshot Manager is available...unless you click "remove snapshot"  Once you remove snapshot it's gone, period.  You cannot go back to a previous state unless you have some other type of backup