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I've used the Mac appliation, but only with limited testing adn without parallels, bootcamp or VMware fusion. For the most part, there isn't a lot of Mac forum action.

I installed Parallels for mac on my machine (imac) and that damaged partially my OS (snow leopard). Meaning that now, when I try to open a .log file it won't cause it tries to open it with notepad on windows and parallels is not installed on there anymore.
Now I was thinking there is any way I can install again snow leopard on my machine without having to do any kind of backup on here? If I put in the snow leopard disc into my imac which is the right type of installation i have to do in order to save all my data and just 'reinstall' the basic OS data?

iMac 24' 2.66 ghz (mid 09) & Macbook 1.83 2 gig Ram, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Ive got Time Machine running on my macbook and that covers the backup of almost everything, but there are also a few programs that i have to run on windows that i use parallels for.

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Can Time Machine backup the windows parallels files at the same time ?

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Only when the Windows VM is NOT running.

When the VM runs the files are in use and in such a way that a snapshot-backup (which is what Time Machine does with 'open' files) is useless.You will get a backup of the VM's files but they will 99 of a 100 times not be usable to recover the VM.

(Same is true for VM's in VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion too.)

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