Long story.... I had a virtual machine containing Windows 7 I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 (lets call it Windows 7). I copied the virtual machine and renamed it (Windows 7 to Windows 10). When I opened the new machine I said I moved it so I didn't have any licensure issue with Windows. Both machines would run. I then upgraded the Windows 7 to Windows 10 VM but I had to take the long way using the media creation tool because of the SVGA bug. Finally got the new machine successfully upgraded and it worked. Tried to open original Windows 7 machine and got missing file error. Was not able to browse out and find the file. So I decided to get rid of the original Windows 7 machine and just keep the new Windows 10 VM. However, when I move the original Windows VM to the trash the new machine won't open and says a file is missing (no name given). If move the original Windows 7 VM back the new Windows 10 VM will open. Both packages always show they were last modified whenever I open the new one and certain files inside the old machine package keep getting updated (.vmx, .nvram, .plist) Files with the same extensions in the new VM don't get updated with the new dates but the .vmdk files get new dates. It's like it's using files from both machine packages to run.
How the heck can I get the two packages merged together and get rid of the files that aren't needed? It's eating 30-40GB of space that isn't needed now.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Bruce