Installer Deletes Installation!

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Hi dawson

@dawson

VirtualBox does not have Whonix loaded. I am attaching another image of Whonix shortcut made on Desktop just after finishing up installation. That resulted in this Error.

I’m not all that familiar with VBox so these are just suggestions.

• have you tried starting Whonix directly from VBox (i.e not from the desktop shortcut)?
• have you tired to reinstall the images as the error suggests? (may not be necessary)
• have a looked at this thread, you could be having a similar problem which may be resolved by downloading the whoninx.ova images separately (without installer)

@dawson

One thought that I can’t seem to make up is why the deletion?

There are very good reason for this.

1. If a user is having problems with the new install and has to reinstall (download) the whonix.ova images again, it would be very difficult ( if not impossible ) to tell the ‘good’ images, from the corrupted ones when they are imported into VBox. This would cause problems for the installer.
2. If you wanted to download a new version of whonix ( e.g. you’re using Whonix 13 and want to upgrade to the new Whonix 14 when relesed ).Once aging this could cause problems for the user ( confusing the old and new images) and the installer (does not know which images to import)