
There aren’t many Cyber Week deals left now but you’ve still got the chance to get 75% off NordVPN on Mac until tomorrow November 30th. 30% off VMWare Fusion Pro (Usually $159.99 now $111.99)Īll of these deals are valid until midnight Friday 30th November 2018.

Normally this would cost $409.98 but you can now get it for $204.98.Īlternatively, if you just want VMWare Fusion or VMWare Fusion Pro on its own you can get: The 50% off deal is for you buy both VMWare Fusion Pro and VMWare Workstation Pro together. VMWare Fusion is one of our favorite tools to run Windows on a Mac and allows you to use Windows only applications and play PC games on your Mac. Select the virtual machine you want to compact in the main window and click VM > Manage > Clean Up Disks.There’s still some Cyber Week bargains to be had for Mac users and VMWare are offering up to 50% off VMWare Fusion Pro and VMWare Workstation Pro until 30th Of November 2018. You can’t complete this process if it’s powered on or suspended. In VMware Workstation, first power off the virtual machine you want to compact. You won’t be able to restore your virtual machine to that point in time after deleting the snapshot, of course. Select a snapshot and click “Delete” to delete it. To view snapshots, select a virtual machine in the main Virtual Machine Library window and click the “Snapshots” button on the toolbar. If these are using a lot of space according to the disk usage information here, you can delete snapshots to free up space if you no longer need them. VMware Fusion also allows you to create snapshots, which capture a virtual machine’s state at a point in time. VMware will automatically clean up your virtual machine and you’ll free up however much space appears as “Reclaimable” here. Click it to continue.Ĭlick the “Clean Up Virtual Machine” button in the window that appears.

If your virtual machine has free space you can reclaim, you’ll see a “Clean Up Recommended” message appear at the bottom of the window. The yellow “Reclaimable” data is how much space you can free up by cleaning up your virtual machine. You won’t see up-to-date disk usage information for the virtual machine until you do this. In the main VMware Fusion window, select a virtual machine and click the “Refresh Disk Space” icon to the right of its disk usage, at the bottom right corner of the window. You can’t do this while a virtual machine is powered on or suspended. In VMware Fusion, first power down a virtual machine. VMware Player does not support snapshots, so you won’t have any snapshots taking up additional space on your computer. VMware will compact the underlying virtual hard disk (.vmdk) files to free up space.

When VMware finishes the defragmentation process, click the “Compact” button under Disk utilities. First, click the “Defragment” button under Disk utilities to defragment the virtual machine’s disk.
