Ack! Invalid machine name or UUID!

[darkphader]

Using VBoxHeadless successfully for many months but when I went to take a snapshot a couple of days ago the VM crashed and will no longer start.

I get:

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Invalid machine name or UUID!

Listing the VMs I get:

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$ VBoxManage list vms
"<inaccessible>" {223fd89a-c3ea-4273-9923-5790269f1f76} 

My snapshots directory shows:

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-rw------- 1  449859584 Oct 16 13:21 {142fc308-98ca-4122-b991-6dee1a468421}.vdi
-rw------- 1  999362560 Nov  6 10:37 {21dea679-6b6a-4c71-8549-c9ba73636848}.vdi
-rw------- 1  532697088 Nov  6 10:37 {6b2f6c98-d44a-40c6-9dba-648779fac260}.vdi
-rw------- 1   64032768 Nov  6 15:48 {6b993f66-ce24-4d22-b30b-24af7c095fbd}.vdi
-rw------- 1  212881408 Nov  6 15:48 {9a3b095e-1e86-4dc5-a436-f4a5c059c797}.vdi
-rw------- 1   61935616 Nov  6 17:28 {925e29ca-4fe6-4d19-bc8a-c15e319c07fc}.vdi
-rw------- 1  202395648 Nov  6 17:28 {1fead5f7-99e3-4efe-a83b-a4707c0ace29}.vdi
-rw------- 1  629215232 Nov 12 14:08 {ba5dfbed-f672-41b4-9aba-d029378f9439}.vdi
-rw------- 1  282087424 Nov 12 14:08 {fda577dd-935e-46e6-a1d7-146907272b64}.vdi
-rw------- 1  906039296 Dec 11 16:41 {6e11ee0d-5ba1-4321-8869-e11066e1a432}.vdi
-rw------- 1  580931584 Dec 11 16:41 {24e2b2eb-47df-46e3-bd05-968c3ea8ef24}.vdi
-rw------- 1      20480 Dec 24 18:27 {26d50238-17b4-47ed-a7f8-b0e5d0c10aa8}.vdi
-rw------- 1      69632 Dec 24 18:27 {d3d8314c-4b3a-4f72-8e1d-ba5de97611a3}.vdi
-rw------- 1  704712704 Dec 24 18:28 {84b3dab2-6884-4289-8a37-7ecc6882a6c2}.vdi
-rw------- 1  347099136 Dec 24 18:28 {23358c84-917f-448b-bc64-eca949babaa8}.vdi

The last snapshot consists of 4 files (!) and not just two.

How can this be recovered?

Thank you,

Chris