Deleting Snapshot hangs

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DoubleFelix
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Deleting Snapshot hangs

Post by DoubleFelix »

I was attempting to delete an old snapshot to save disk space, but it hung for quite some time, so I closed out of the application and restarted, and it's still stuck deleting the snapshot. I can't start the VM or restore it. How can I fix this?
DoubleFelix
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Re: Deleting Snapshot hangs

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Sorry, I guess I just had to keep waiting. After about another 10 minutes it did finish. Apparently it had the background process running despite me killing the UI.
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Re: Deleting Snapshot hangs

Post by mpack »

You were lucky to get away with that. Snapshots are huge traps for the unwary, in addition to being monstrous disk hogs.
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