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How to get rid of unnecessary *.VDI files?
Posted: 14. Oct 2012, 00:28
by IcePick
I have 7 snapshots of my Windows XP virtual machine according to the VM VirtualBox Manager.
Yet in the Snapshot directory of this machine I have 16 *.VDI files. How can I determine which .VDI files can be deleted?
TIA
Brent
Re: How to get rid of unnecessary *.VDI files?
Posted: 14. Oct 2012, 10:42
by mpack
Check with File | Virtual Media Manager. If media isn't listed there then it isn't being used. You can double check inside the .vbox file with a text editor (Notepad++, as Notepad isn't up to the job).
Make a backup of the entire VM folder before you start, to another drive.
Re: How to get rid of unnecessary *.VDI files?
Posted: 14. Oct 2012, 20:33
by IcePick
mpack,
Thanks for the reply. I didn't realize VB had separate .vdi files for each drive, I thought they were lumped together in one .vdi file. I have 2 drives on my virtual machine so that's why I had so many .vdi files.