Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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DwightSolar wrote:And I couldent upload a zip file because it said I had to be a user for one more day. Did you not see that?
No, something is not right. The only thing you can't do if you're a first-day user is to post links. Which you clearly can. So, please try again. And don't forget I said to ZIP it, otherwise it gets rejected!

BTW, I can't even download it from the dropbox link. The only thing it says is:
.vbox files can't be previewed
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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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DwightSolar wrote: And I couldent upload a zip file because it said I had to be a user for one more day.
There has never been any such rule on this site. There is a rule concerning offsite links, but you have never needed an offsite link to attach files.

As to your screenshot, with all context stripped away it tells me nothing. Do you not think it would have been more useful to post a screenshot of the VM folder, as in the example Bill gave you?

Anyway here is the location of your VDI: "C:/Users/aabra/Documents/OHOL-Ubuntu64.vdi". It is clear that your VM was created in an unusual way. The VDI has been copied out of a previous VM ("OHOL-Ubuntu64"), into a random documents folder, then a new VM has been created called "OHOL-VM", and the VDI has been included in that, without copying the VDI into the VM folder. The resulting confusion is a classic example of why the latter is not a good idea.

So that only leaves the question: what is that "VirtualBox Image" file you said was in the VM folder? Perhaps a screenshot of the VM folder would answer that final question.
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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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mpack wrote:Anyway here is the location of your VD
How on earth did you manage to see that? I couldn't! OSX/Firefox compatibility issues maybe? Dropbox doesn't like me? :)
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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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socratis wrote:How on earth did you manage to see that? I couldn't! OSX/Firefox compatibility issues maybe?
Both Chrome and Firefox on macOS 10.14 give me the .vbox can't be previewed error. It appears that you have to download the .zip file and look at it locally.

Now back to our scheduled program...

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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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andyp73 wrote:Now back to our scheduled program...
Soon, soon... I promise... :)
andyp73 wrote: It appears that you have to download the .zip file and look at it locally.
Yeah, I'd love to! But how did you do it? BTW, Safari shows me the same thing...

If it helps, I do *not* have Dropbox installed on my computer, I'm not sure if that is part of the problem or not...
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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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socratis wrote:Yeah, I'd love to! But how did you do it?
The link took me to:
Screenshot 2019-02-22 at 11.10.20.png
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Clicking on the "Download" button gives an option for "Direct download".

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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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Like Andy, I clicked the download button on top right. The UI is similar(ish) to the Outlook web interface, which also complains about file types it can't preview, so I'm used to ignoring the preview option and clicking the download.
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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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Yeah, that's the problem. I do *not* have that link, that space is empty. :shock:
Gonna try it with another OSX version, 10.13 or something else. This is definitely weird behavior on my part/setup...

Thanks guys!
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Re: Trouble with finding the VDI for my VM

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Found the cause! AdBlock Plus! I guess it was blocking too much... ;)
Thanks everyone again...
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