Mountain Lion procedure to clean up (shrink) a Snow Leopard virtual machine under VMware Fusion 5.0.3

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Procedure to clean up (shrink) a Snow Leopard virtual machine under VMware Fusion 5.0.3
1.     Backup your existing Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine
2.     Right click the Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine
                    Click Show Package Contents
                    If there are a number of Virtual Disk files then Fusion is allocating space for the virtual machine in 2 GB segments
                    Close the Package Contents folder
3.     If the Snow Leopard virtual machine is segmented then convert it to a single Virtual Disk.vmdk as follows:
                    Start VMware Fusion
                    Select the Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine
                    Click Settings > Hard Disk (SCSI)
                    Click the Advanced options disclosure triangle
                    Clear 'Split into 2 GB files'
                    Click Apply
                    This process will take a few minutes to complete. After the conversion is done, continue with the next step of this procedure.
4.     Start the Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine
5.     Start Disk Utility
                    Select Macintosh HD
                    Click Erase
                    Click Erase Free Space
                    Select Zero Out Deleted Files
                    Click Erase Free Space
                    If a message is displayed stating: "Your startup disk is almost full", click OK
          When the erasure completes, quit Disk Utility
          Shut Down the Snow Leopard virtual machine
6.     Quit VMware Fusion
7.     Right click the Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine
                    Click Show Package Contents
                    Select the Virtual Disk.vmdk file
                    Click Edit > Copy "Virtual Disk.vmdk"
                    Select your ~/Documents/Virtual Machines folder
                    Click Edit > Paste Item
8.     Rename the "Virtual Disk.vmdk" file in your ~/Documents/Virtual Machines folder to "Original Disk.vmdk"
9.     Start Terminal
                    Change "xxxxxxxx" in the following Terminal command to your short account name.
                              "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager" -r "/Users/xxxxxxxx/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Original Disk.vmdk" -t 0 "/Users/xxxxxxxx/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Virtual Disk.vmdk"
                    Paste this Terminal command (including the leading and trailing quotation marks) into the Terminal window
                    Press the return (enter) key
                    After the process completes and the Terminal input prompt is displayed, quit Terminal
10.     Right click the Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine
                    Click Show Package Contents
                    Right click the Virtual Disk.vmdk file and select Move to Trash
                    Move the Virtual Disk.vmdk file from your ~/Documents/Virtual Machines folder to the Mac OS X Snow Leopard package folder
                    Close the Package Contents folder
11.     Start the Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine to confirm that it runs correctly
12.     Right click the "Original Disk.vmdk" file in your ~/Documents/Virtual Machines folder and select Move to Trash

Answer 1

Judy Churchill wrote:
So if the vendor doesn't provide an uninstall program or instructions, we're just stuck with stuff we may no longer need?
Pretty much. You can always erase your hard drive and reinstall the OS. Some people may attempt to talk you through manually deleting files. I try very hard to avoid doing that because 100% of the time, the person I'm trying to help can't find the files and, instead, starts randomly deleting required system files. Then you have no choice but to reinstall the OS.