You can perform a manual or automated cleanup of certain virtual machines to free up space on your Mac. The cleanup compacts and defragments the virtual machine.
When you delete files from your virtual machine, Fusion does not return the space to your Mac. Cleaning up the virtual machine performs the following operations.
Disk cleanup is not supported in the following situations.
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The virtual hard disk uses a FAT32, FAT, or exFAT file system. |
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To perform a manual cleanup, shut down or power off the virtual machine. You cannot perform the manual cleanup while the virtual machine is powered on or suspended.