Hi
thanks I have deleted all from the snapshot manager and there was something in there.
it has now consolidated the vmdk on DISK_1 but when I look an hour later it is still showing the same time as when I performed the snapshot deletion.
I will observe it for now and see how it goes.
I am concerned it will happen again if I have to disconnect the DISK_1 how can I ensure it is the latest version before disconnecting in the future?
also is there a way that I can export just the VM on the 250GB 'datastore' disk without having to disconnect the 1TB 'DISK_1' hard disk that is used purely for file storage, as this is where the problem occured in the first place, I was trying to export just the Windows Server 2008 instance and not all the users data files.
I have looked through the link you sent, thanks I knew some of that already after the issue I ran into previously but that helps understand it a little better.