Interrupted "Discard current snapshot and state"

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kv11111
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Interrupted "Discard current snapshot and state"

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Doing "Discard current snapshot and state" was interrupted with an error because of insufficient disk space. Now the snapshot I was discarding have disappeared from snapshots list, but current state was not reverted (i.e. the VM is exactly in the same state as before starting the discart operation).

Now my machine has exactly one snapshot (that was existed long before) and current state. However in "Virtual Box Disk Manager" I see three differencing versions of the disk image: one for the existing snapshot, one for the current state (according to the UUID and .xml files) and one in between, not referencing to any existing snapshot.

How can I recover from such situation ? I suppose that I may manually edit machine's .xml file to point "current state" to the middle snapshot, may I ?
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Re: Interrupted "Discard current snapshot and state"

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kv11111 wrote:I suppose that I may manually edit machine's .xml file to point "current state" to the middle snapshot, may I ?
Yes as thats the only way out.
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Re: Interrupted "Discard current snapshot and state"

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vbox4me2 wrote:
kv11111 wrote:I suppose that I may manually edit machine's .xml file to point "current state" to the middle snapshot, may I ?
Yes as thats the only way out.
OK, it worked. Thank you very much.
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