snapshots not attached after virtualbox upgrade

[toddcoder]

First, I apologize if there is already a post for this situation. I did search for one and came up empty.

I have a problem with snapshots that are not attached to my virtual machine. The problem started after I upgraded to v4.3.6. When I started the vm, I received a warning that "disk could not be found". In poor fashion, I didn't bother to read the message fully as I assumed it was referring to an ISO that no longer existed; now I'm starting to believe it was referring to one or more of my snapshots disks.

The virtual machine is named win7-office2010 and the disk is named win7-office2010.vdi. There are snapshot disks are located in the /Snapshots folder. The snapshots can be seen in Virtual Media Manager. The snapshot disk names and status are as follows:

{5e986dbb-a9cf-4c81-9391-3925b4d9a8b1}.vdi (not attached)
{9c08520e-de9d-4632-a142-b069b47fb807}.vdi (attached to win7-office2010)
{c690860f-3a5e-4b8e-8480-c1fce08d6296}.vdi (not attached)

My vm boots fine. Obviously, all of the work performed since the attached snapshot is missing. The Snapshots panel in VirtualBox Manager shows only the attached snapshot.

Excerpts from win7-office2010.vbox:

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      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{3cd7e327-fc7d-4e66-ae88-92ce92ea6a16}" location="win7-office2010.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal">
          <HardDisk uuid="{c690860f-3a5e-4b8e-8480-c1fce08d6296}" location="Snapshots/{c690860f-3a5e-4b8e-8480-c1fce08d6296}.vdi" format="VDI"/>
          <HardDisk uuid="{5e986dbb-a9cf-4c81-9391-3925b4d9a8b1}" location="Snapshots/{5e986dbb-a9cf-4c81-9391-3925b4d9a8b1}.vdi" format="VDI"/>
          <HardDisk uuid="{9c08520e-de9d-4632-a142-b069b47fb807}" location="Snapshots/{9c08520e-de9d-4632-a142-b069b47fb807}.vdi" format="VDI"/>
        </HardDisk>
      </HardDisks>

There is only one Snapshot tag in the win7-office2010.vbox:

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<Snapshot uuid="{ce9a7a6c-0539-4c75-b34f-2500eade952b}" name="pre java test" timeStamp="2013-03-15T00:26:19Z" ...>

Host is Windows 7 64 bit
VM is Windows 7 32 bit

Is it possible to re-attach the missing snapshots? If not, is it possible to retrieve data from the snapshots?

Thanks for any assistance

[socratis]

Can you post your full "win7-office2010.vbox". I could try to hack it (I'm in an adventurous mood today). No promises that it will work at all. Also if you can list the last modification dates of your .vdi files?