File Deletion lead to NS_ERROR_FAILURE

[BitWiz]

Hey everybody,

I deleted a large file (1 - 7GB) related to VirtualBox because I ran short on memory, MacOs listed this file as one of my biggest on the file system and I thought this might not get used anymore because the necessary data is in the machine related folder. But now all of my virtual machines won't run. When I try to start them, I get an error message that says:

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Error code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}

I still have all the VDI, VBOX and other machine related files, but I'm not sure where the deleted file was located. I can recover the file with Time Machine if I know its path.

Can anyone please help me troubleshoot this issue?

[scottgus1]

What was the name of the file you deleted?

now all of my virtual machines won't run.

I can't think of any multi-GB Virtualbox file that would prevent all of the VMs from running, unless they were all linked clones of one VM and you deleted the base disk.

get an error message that says:

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Error code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}

There is almost always more to the error message. What was the rest of it?