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I have to reinstall OS X...what VPC files do I need to keep?

Source: microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc
Sent: 01/16/2008
From: (email address - cut out)
Message:

I have VPC 7 running on a Mac G5 Dual 2GHz PowerPC. I have to wipe my hard drive and reinstall the OS. I use Quickbooks Pro in VPC. What files do I need to copy so that I don't lose all my Quickbooks info? I think I have to reinstall QB on VPC after I reinstall VPC, correct? Thanks... Lloyd

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Re: I have to reinstall OS X...what VPC files do I need to keep?

Sent: 01/17/2008
From: Jeff Wiseman <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

(email address - cut out) wrote:

Be careful not to confuse the VPC application with the VPC "data"
files (i.e., your virtual machine which contains all of the
windows OS, windows applications, and windows data). The
Quickbooks Pro application and data files are all contained in
the virtual machine data file.

I assume you have at least one clone or backup of your entire
system prior to the disk wipe out. If not then this is all a moot
point. :-)

After you have reinstalled the main OS and all of the apps that
you want, we can assume that you will be retrieving all of your
other documents and data files, etc. from the backup. Your
virtual machine "data" file should be with those (it was likely
stored in your documents folder in a folder with the name
"Virtual PC List").

You will also want to recover from backup any other Virtual
Machine data files for other accounts that may have existed (you
can have more than one, you know...)

No. Again, you don't install Windows files or applications *IN*
the VPC application--they go into the virtual machine data files.
If you retrieved your old data files, then they will all still be
exactly where you left them.

One other thing. Make SURE that when you exited your virtual
machines the last time on the original system, that you did a
complete SHUTDOWN from the Start menu and didn't just exit VPC
which just "freezes" the state of the virtual machine. If you do
not do this to all of the virtual machines (i.e., all of the VM
data files) that you have, you may not be able to ever run them
again on the new system.

Oh, and make sure that you have reapplied ALL of the VPC updates
that you previously had before attempting to open any of your
virtual machine data files. Otherwise it's like trying to open a
Quicken 2007 file using Quicken 2004--if it opens at all, you're
likely gonna break something :-)

Hope this helps.

--
Jeff Wiseman
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> I have VPC 7 running on a Mac G5 Dual 2GHz PowerPC. I have to
> wipe my hard drive and reinstall the OS. I use Quickbooks Pro
> in VPC. What files do I need to copy
> so that I don't lose all my Quickbooks info? I think I have to
> reinstall QB on VPC after I reinstall VPC, correct?

Re: I have to reinstall OS X...what VPC files do I need to keep?

Sent: 01/17/2008
From: (email address - cut out)
Message:

Jeff, Thanks for all the info! Yes, I do have a back-up of the entire system, and two back-ups of my user folder (which includes the Virtual PC List). When you say to reapply all updates, do you mean just to VPC? Does VPC keep the updates that have been made to Quickbooks? Again, thank you! Lloyd

Re: I have to reinstall OS X...what VPC files do I need to keep?

Sent: 01/17/2008
From: "Colin Barnhorst" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

The updates are applied to the guest OS, not VPC.
<(email address - cut out)> wrote in message news:(email address - cut out)absDaxw...
Jeff,

Thanks for all the info! Yes, I do have a back-up of the entire system, and two back-ups of my user folder (which includes the Virtual PC List). When you say to reapply all updates, do you mean just to VPC? Does VPC keep the updates that have been made to Quickbooks?

Again, thank you!

Lloyd

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Re: I have to reinstall OS X...what VPC files do I need to keep?

Sent: 01/18/2008
From: Jeff Wiseman <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

Yes. If your VM data file was created and being run under VPC
7.0.3, you don't want to try running it under VPC 7.0.0

Again, VPC knows nothing about those updates (or any other
windows application for that matter) it is just a virtual piece
of hardware. VPC is just an application that you can run a VM
data file with. Your entire windows XP OS (or whatever) along
with all Windows applications, data, updates, upgrades, and even
viruses if any, etc. all are deeply embedded in that VM data
file. If you haven't corrupted that file, then everything that
you ever installed onto that virtual machine will still be
there--windows applications AND data.

If you put the VM data file on the new mac installation and
install VPC on the new Mac installation, everything that was in
the original data file is still there.

Your questions is sort of like asking "if I move my excel
spreadsheet to another computer with the same version of Excel,
will I have to reinstall all of the functions I had in my
spreadsheet?". Of course not. To Excel it is just another
spreadsheet It runs the functions that you put in the
spreadsheet. Whatever you put there stays there untill you've
changed it.

VPC runs the functions (i.e. Windows XP, Office, Quickbooks) that
you have installed in the VM data file. That's why the file is so
friggin' big! It's got the entire OS and all of the windows
applications in it. VPC just mimics the hardware low level
functions of a PC.

--
Jeff Wiseman
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> includes the Virtual PC List). When you say to reapply all
> updates, do you mean just to VPC?
> Does VPC keep the updates that have been made to Quickbooks?

Re: I have to reinstall OS X...what VPC files do I need to keep?

Sent: 01/18/2008
From: Jeff Wiseman <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I just thought of something.

You ARE using Quickbooks for Windows in your Virtual Machine, right?

I mean, you aren't using Quickbooks for Mac on the Mac itself
(which is also available).

I've assumed all along that you had the Windows version of
Quickbooks. If this is not the case then a lot of what I said
won't make sense (which seems to be happening a lot to me lately...)

--
Jeff Wiseman
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