well, you probably just need to remove some stale locks. That is, somewhere on the VM, there is a place where files indicating "busy" status of a particular volume, so-called locks, are stored. On Windows hosts, they have .lck extensions. So you need to remove the one that is causing you the trouble. However, a VM reboot should have taken care of it. (YMMV: It has been ages since I worked with VMware, so I might sound vague on this)
On Dec 2, 12:58 pm, Rolandb <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried everything I could imagine: restarting VMWARE, inspection of > the individual vdmk files, restarting the computer, ... > > It seems that I have to re-install Sage (for Windows). > The problem is that by re-installing, I will loose all my notebook > files. > So, I want to save those files first! BUT HOW? > > Roland > > On 1 dec, 21:57, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't know much about Windows, but did you try restarting? That > > might release any stale file locks. (Don't worry, your data should > > still be there.) > > > On Dec 1, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Rolandb wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Sage fails to start. Does this mean that I lost all my notebook files? > > > > That would be very sad........... > > > > Thanks in advance of a solution which save my files!! > > > > Roland > > > > On 1 dec, 04:57, Rolandb <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi, > > > >> How serious is the following message? > > > >> Cannot open the disk 'D:\Program Files\Sage\sage- > > >> vmware-4.1\disk.vmdk' > > >> or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. > > >> Reason: Failed to lock the file. > > > >> Roland > > > > -- > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
