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What we now have is pretty close to what we need – but its unlikely that the remaining 12 extents (in my case) will add up exactly to 50GB. Remove the empty extents as thats the space we want to remove from the disk in terms of how it appears to the VM. The last extent is at 131KB as its just making up the difference required to the bring the total size of the extents to exactly 60GB Remove Unwanted Extents After the shrinking process, the last 4 of my extent files are empty as they are at the standard 524KB or smaller. 
/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -k Split.vmdkĪs you can see, my 60GB disk was split into 16 extents (Split-sXXX.vmdk) and a descriptor file (Split.vmdk). It effectively compacts the data inside the VMDK, and will leave contiguous space at the end of the VMDK that we can safely remove. 
So this process is really only necessary if your original VMDK was already split into multiple files when you started (though it will do no harm if you do it anyway). If your extents look a bit like the below image, then you are good to go. If your VMDK was a single file to begin with, then the process of zeroing the empty space and splitting the disk should have resulted in a compact set of VMDK extents (where all the data is in the earlier extents and the last few extent files are empty).
When done you should have a split version of the VMDK in your working folder. /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -r Windows10.vmdk -t 1 Split.vmdk. Open a Terminal Window and navigate to the folder with the copy of the VMDK file. VMWARE FUSION MAC DELETE SERIES
If the VMDK was a series of files to begin with, then you can skip this section and move to the next one, but if it was a single file then you need to split it up before proceeding (dont worry, we can consolidate it again afterwards). There may be more than one file if the VMDK is set to split into extents. Copy the VMDK file(s) to your working folder. You might need to right click and do ‘Show Package Contents’ if using Fusion. Create a new working folder to manipulate the VMDK in. Virtual Machine -> Settings -> General -> Clean Up Virtual Machine. Delete the temporary partition we created in the previous section. You might as well do the same on the system partition too. This writes zeros into the empty space. Open a Command Window, navigate to the extracted files and run. Create a new (temporary) simple partition that fills up the empty space that we intend to remove from the VMDK and assign it a drive letter. VMWARE FUSION MAC DELETE CRACK
Now that we have a disk setup that looks like the below, we can crack on with altering the VMDK itself. This makes it easier to manage the empty VMDK extents later, and you can always expand the volume back out to the end of the drive at the end of the process.
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Disk Management -> Right Click Volume -> Shrink Volume -> Enter the size to shrink the volume by -> Shrinkįeel free to go as small as it allows, but shoot for a final volume size that is at least 4-5 GB smaller than the size you want to adjust the VMDK to.I advocate running a defrag of the volume at the OS level before you start. So first of all, we need to shrink the partition on the disk so that we dont lob off the end of it when we shrink the VMDK. Its not a supported or documented method, so your mileage may vary, backup your VM before trying etc!! Preparing the VM
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So I kept poking around and managed to get it done – so I thought I’d share a Pro Tip that might help others get to the solution a little faster. I read that the only supported method was to use VMware vCenter Converter (which I tried) but it was real slow as it does a file based copy, and didn’t actually work for me in the end. I dug around with Dr Google for a while, and struggled to find the answer.
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