How to merge up / merge down / abandon snapshot data?

[ATheros]

mpack, it would be best if you avoided answering technical support questions in the future as many of your answers even in this thread have proven inaccurate. If you weren't a moderator I would assume that you are a troll.

you do know mpack can ban you permanently from the forum right?

yes. But it would not be justifiable. All I've done is disagree with him, with evidence and reasoning provided, and I haven't been pedantic.

[loukingjr]

mpack, it would be best if you avoided answering technical support questions in the future as many of your answers even in this thread have proven inaccurate. If you weren't a moderator I would assume that you are a troll.

you do know mpack can ban you permanently from the forum right?

yes. But it would not be justifiable. All I've done is disagree with him, with evidence and reasoning provided, and I haven't been pedantic.

actually it would be justified. I certainly would. And your information is what is incorrect. Snapshots have worked essentially the same way since v. 2.2 when I started using VirtualBox 5 years ago which not what you described.

[ATheros]

I'm here to correct my understanding. Where was I mistaken?

[loukingjr]

I'm here to correct my understanding. Where was I mistaken?

I take back what I said. The software developers that have worked on VirtualBox for approximately 6 years, the moderators who have been working with it for up to the same amount of time, the users, some of whom have been running it for up to 6 years, have all managed to miss such an obvious error that you managed to glean in only a week. congrats.

[mpack]

I would not think badly of someone for disagreeing with me, never mind consider banning them! It would be a different matter if they got abusive, then my moderator duties would come into play. Suggesting that someone might be a troll is getting pretty close.

Atheros: go check out the CloneVDI topic. Take note of what the tool does, and who the author is. Then come back here and kindly explain precisely what it is that I don't understand about VDIs, Snapshots etc. Or, explain what my inaccuracies were in this thread.

[loukingjr]

I thought suggesting you should avoid giving technical support was close as well. I really didn't take his comment as just disagreeing with you. Hopefully he gets the point by now.