Can anybody help me? I downloaded mavericks without knowing that parallels 7 wouldn't work. It's used for book keeping and records, since simply accounting isn't available for Mac. Will upgrading to parallels 9 delete my data on the windows side? I don't care about paying for the upgrade, I just don't want to lose any of my information. Thanks!
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Parallels 7 won't run in Mavericks
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Chabig- mavericks wont't even let me open parallels 7 to shut it down, although when I upgraded to mavericks all my applications were closed. When I try to download parallels 9 it asks me to delete my parallels 7, but says the virtual machine will still be there. Does the virtual machine include my windows xp with simply accounting?
I shut it down as a precaution. But if you can't, you can't. I still think you'll be fine.
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Yes. The virtual machine isn't affected when you install or upgrade Parallels.
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Yes. The virtual machine isn't affected when you install or upgrade Parallels.
Chabig- don't mean to annoy you, but how sure are you that my accounting data will be fine? Just want to be completely sure. Thank you so much
I'm 100% sure your virtual machine will remain intact in your Documents folder. And Parallels 9 is going to be running the same virtual machine that Parallels 7 was, so I'm 100% sure your documents and data will remain intact. The only thing that will change in your virtual machine is the installed version of Parallels Tools. Still, you should make and keep a backup of your virtual machine before upgrading--just in case.
It says that I needed to upgrade to parallels 9 before installing mavericks. Does this mean I'm totally screwed?
Contradictory statements. FACT: Digital data can NEVER be considered fine or safe without backups. Hard drive fail all the time without any warning. Mistakes are made all the time and not realized until after it's too late. Accidents are VERY common. Casual data requires at least 1 on site backup (Time Machine is easiest and best for retrieving data from any past date) and if data is important then there should be 1 (or even better 2) onsite and an offsite (weekly) backup.
Time Machine starting point.
I’ve updated Parallels twice without any issues with my existing VMs.
However ...
That’s what I was going to recommend.
If you (the OP) navigate in Finder to: Documents >> Parallels
You should see one or more PVM files (I have 8
), with names you should recognize from the Parallels startup/machine selection window. That’s your Windows VM, and it’s completely independent from your Parallels application. If you want to secure them, you can make a copy to a different directory, or even better to an external drive, and/or a cloud service like Dropbox.
On a separate note: if you’ve got business critical data not being backed up, you’re nuts. Get an external hard drive _immediately_ connect it, setup Time Machine. On a Mac that has such a simple built-in backup, there’s no reason not to use it. Time Machine by default will include your VM directory.
However ...
That’s what I was going to recommend.
If you (the OP) navigate in Finder to: Documents >> Parallels
You should see one or more PVM files (I have 8
), with names you should recognize from the Parallels startup/machine selection window. That’s your Windows VM, and it’s completely independent from your Parallels application. If you want to secure them, you can make a copy to a different directory, or even better to an external drive, and/or a cloud service like Dropbox.On a separate note: if you’ve got business critical data not being backed up, you’re nuts.
Get an external hard drive _immediately_ connect it, setup Time Machine. On a Mac that has such a simple built-in backup, there’s no reason not to use it. Time Machine by default will include your VM directory.
So I found my VM and duplicated it, also opened time machine to back up some things. Going to upgrade parallels this afternoon