I've been using VMWare WS Pro for a while now, and tonight it suddenly refused to open my latest snapshot file. No meaningfull error message, no hint, no nothing.
It just popsaa up with a dialog saying
Error restoring snapshot:
Unable to open the snapshot file.
This is a paid version of VMWare Workstation. Am I to accept that a snapshot containing the latest state of the development environment I was working in, is lost forever? I've not found anything useful about this error on the internet, so I'm asking here, in the hope that either VMWare themselves or some of the users with know-how can help. It's only the last snapshot that doesn't work - all the others are restorable.
The only errors I can find in the log file are these, which says little or nothing:
2018-09-03T21:30:30.121+02:00| vmx| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2018-09-03T21:30:30.121+02:00| vmx| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2018-09-03T21:30:30.122+02:00| vmx| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2018-09-03T21:30:30.122+02:00| vmx| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2018-09-03T21:30:30.122+02:00| vmx| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2018-09-03T21:30:30.122+02:00| vmx| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2018-09-03T21:30:30.124+02:00| vmx| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "C:\Users\hofh\AppData\Roaming\VMware\config.ini": Unknown error 2 (0x2).
The files containing the snapshot are:
testutviklermaskin-Snapshot24.vmsn
testutviklermaskin-Snapshot24.vmem
I read something about unnecessary lines in the .vmx file for the image, but that was an entry from 2017, and none of those lines are present in my file.
Not sure what other info is relevant, short of the snapshot files themselves, which are about 30GB in size...