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Thousands of virtual machines in trash

The last couple of months I've noticed if my iMac has been off for a couple of days and I then power up, there will be 30,000 files in the trash. All are virtual machine folders and files. I don't run Parallels or VMWare.

This started when I retired my 2012 iMad for a late 2018. I used Time Machine to set up the 2018.

I've looked around as best I can to try and figure out what's generated these but it's a bit over me head.

Anyone have any ideas what's doing this or some hints on where to look?

Thanks.

Posted on Jul 29, 2019 10:13 PM

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Posted on Jul 31, 2019 8:41 AM



Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD. If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Latest Mojave Recovery a bit different—

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can run this utility http://etrecheck.com

If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the edit toolbar below.



To trouble shoot further you can:


Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.


Test issue in another user (or guest user) account  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 


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Jul 31, 2019 8:41 AM in response to I_Need_a_Beer



Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD. If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Latest Mojave Recovery a bit different—

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can run this utility http://etrecheck.com

If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the edit toolbar below.



To trouble shoot further you can:


Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.


Test issue in another user (or guest user) account  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 


Thousands of virtual machines in trash

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