Parallels and Fusion use a virtual hard drive image of Windows to run. It will show up as a single large file which is the hard drive image. Similar to a disk image in OSX. Now I always keep a back up copy of my windows disk image in case there becomes a problem with the one I am currently using. Any work that you do in Windows should be saved out to the Mac side of the hard drive in a folder so that you will not lose anything if the Windows disk image becomes unstable as Windows is so famous for doing. If she saved the file in the Windows disk image it can be a problem.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Profile Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 9:48 AM To: Macintosh topics Subject: [MacGroup] Parallel's Question I need professional opinions on this subjective question. The man that does programming for me has a daughter attending the University of Cincinnati. She uses a Mac but there are some courses that require Windoze, so he loaded Parallels. All went well for awhile and one night she shut down Windows and the next day it was toast. To their dismay they found that all the files were inside one huge file, not individual files as you would need to find what you wanted to recover. All her work was lost. He then moved her to Boot Camp and now all the files are individual as you would need. I don't really want to use Boot Camp for I need to have a Mac program running while I use the one program inside Windows, (Office Access database) so what is the solution? Did my friend have this configured wrong and is there a way to have Parallels save individual files? The Windoze program that I will be using will be used for a short time only, (until I can get the database written for a Mac) but it is from a friend almost 400 miles from here so I don't want to take a chance that something goes wrong and I am not close enough to reinstall easily. All ideas are sure welcomed. John
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