that was present will re-download (assuming the item is still available in iTunes/App Store) and your Home screen layout will be preserved. Well, maybe not downloads from Apple Music subscription service (more on that in a bit).Īpps and purchased iTunes music, movies, TV, books, etc. NOTE: For the new users who install Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac on macOS 10.12 Sierra the default folder for virtual machines will be /users/username/Parallels/.Yes, assuming everything is fully synced/backed up to iCloud the restore will bring everything back. > General, and specify desired location for the new virtual machines. To change the default folder for the new virtual machines, go to Parallels Desktop menu > Preferences. > check Desktop & Documents Folders option > click Done.Ĭhange the default folder for the new virtual machines Go to the Apple menu > System Preferences > iCloud > ( enable iCloud Drive) > Options.IMPORTANT: Double-click the virtual machine bundle after moving it to the new directory to register it in Parallels Desktop for Mac. We recommend you create a Parallels folder in home user directory.ĭrag and drop the virtual machine bundle from current directory to the new one. Open another Finder window with the directory where you want to move your virtual machine(s). Open Finder > navigate to Documents > Parallels.Move your virtual machines to another location Make sure not to lose your virtual machine. Once uploaded, please keep in mind that deleting a virtual machine from one place (either iCloud or local folder) will automatically delete it from another. However, the virtual machine may be successfully uploaded to iCloud. This leads to outbound network traffic waste. Therefore iCloud will constantly try to upload the files, but will drop the upload once it detects that the files are changed. When you run a virtual machine that is located in a iCloud-synced folder, due to I/O disk operations virtual hard disk files are constantly being modified.Uploading a virtual machine to iCloud might occupy an ample part of your iCloud storage. As more you work in VM, as more space it will take. Why not to sync a virtual machine with iCloud?Ĭommon Windows virtual machine occupies around 20GB of disk space. Parallels virtual machine(s) is stored in Documents folder. I want to exclude my virtual machine(s) from being stored in iCloud Drive.I want to enable Store files from Documents and Desktop in iCloud Drive option, but I don't want my virtual machine to be stored in iCloud, as it takes too much disk space.

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