VMWare Fusion image missing after restore

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  1. Kjaeldeil, May 11, 2008

    Kjaeldeil macrumors newbie

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    So I have a 2008 Macbook Pro, and I just installed a new hard drive, and used Time Machine to do a full restore, and now my VMWare WindowsXP image is missing. I thought I had it in my Virtual Machines folder, and did a search on my disk for all the extensions that VMWare claims it saves it in, but I cant find it anywhere. Just wondering if anyone has run into this, before I start over from scratch.

    Thanks,
    Kalel the Jedi:confused:
     
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  2. wrldwzrd89, May 12, 2008

    wrldwzrd89 macrumors G5

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    By default, VMware flags its virtual machine image files to not be backed up via Time Machine... until version 1.2 was released, which changed the default to allow Time Machine backups of VM files. If you were using a version of VMware prior to 1.2 (which is a free update to VMware users), your virtual machine isn't going to be there.
     
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  3. Kjaeldeil, May 13, 2008

    Kjaeldeil thread starter macrumors newbie

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    Thanks, I upgraded to 1.1.2 now, and I have to rebuild everything, but hopefully it will work in the future, I will double check the files are there in time machine this time.:eek:
     
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