4 Sep 2009
Parallels 3.0 on Snow Leopard
I upgraded to Snow Leopard on my Mac and as described on Apple’s website Parallels 3.0 won’t start on Snow Leopard. At least not by default. However it is possible to start Parallels 3.0 under Snow Leopard without updating anything. As there are some good reasons given, that lead to this result, use the following steps at your own risk. I haven’t experienced any problems with these steps, but who knows?
So here is what you need to do.
- Open Parallels in Applications folder.
- Choose “Show Package Contents” from the context menu
- Go to “Contents”->”MacOS”
- Open the located binary “Parallels”
A Terminal will open and start Parallels Desktop as in Leopard. I also put a photo set on flickr, showing all steps.
Appendix
If you want to have a shortcut in your Dock, you can simply drag the binary into it.
Wow, lifesaver, wife would have killed me if I could not have retrieved her Microsoft Money data file. Phew.
Aitch
September 8th, 2009 at 8:26 pmpermalink
Clever guy – thanks for the tip!!
Piero
September 9th, 2009 at 9:21 pmpermalink
Fantastic!
It works, Parallels launches and works almost 100%. Drag and drop from the Mac desktop to Parallels doesn’t seem to work, but for me it is not a deal breaker.
Thank you, thank you Toni. You have saved me spending €30+ just to get the app working again.
Anil K Solanki
September 10th, 2009 at 12:20 ampermalink
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September 11th, 2009 at 3:41 ampermalink
Doesn’t work for me :-( MacOS crashes!
Lars
September 12th, 2009 at 1:07 ampermalink
Does not work for me ! The terminal opens and then Parallels 3 just Crashes. I am not impressed with parallels, I was thinking about buying the upgrade before installing SL .. no way now.
Paul Crocker
September 25th, 2009 at 12:39 ampermalink
Thank you!!! You saved my exams!!!
Davor Zagorac
October 6th, 2009 at 8:43 ampermalink
TONI THANK YOU!!! GREAT, that roks and works!!!!!!!!!
Felix
October 21st, 2009 at 5:21 pmpermalink
I cant find the “show package contents” its not listed in the menu????
Jeff
October 30th, 2009 at 10:19 pmpermalink
My System also crash always.
Incentive
October 31st, 2009 at 4:15 pmpermalink
Hey Jeff, I can’t figure out, why it should not be there. Here is the Screenshot of the menu (English version). http://www.flickr.com/photos/toni-uebernickel/3887106283/in/set-72157622242099218/
havvg
November 1st, 2009 at 1:45 pmpermalink
it worked for me for some time and suddenly stoped. now every time i start parallels this way whole macos crashes.
quaint
November 8th, 2009 at 10:25 pmpermalink
Try starting Parallels before you start heavy applications. In my situation it’s eclipse which causes the same problem.
havvg
November 9th, 2009 at 10:42 ampermalink
i’ve turned on home folder sharing and that caused the problem. when every sharing option is off everything is good back again.
quaint
November 10th, 2009 at 12:43 ampermalink
[...] ja was von digitaler Erpressung! – habe ich weiter gesucht und bin über den Apfeltalk auf den exzellenten Tipp von Toni gestoßen: das Parallels-Paket aufschnüren und das Executable einfach direkt starten, als Terminal-Programm. [...]
untergeek
November 14th, 2009 at 2:43 pmpermalink
Thanks a lot from a German Paralells User to you.
Works fine on my imac 20′ under SL.
Klaus
January 9th, 2010 at 12:51 pmpermalink