title: Virtual Box- Accidentally deleted vmdk file. What can I do?
body: <p>Hope someone can help me here. Really need to get back to work.</p>
  
  <p>This morning my 120gb macbook air was filling up and I was prompted to remove some files. I had been playing around with Kali this week on another vm so decided to remove that to continue working on my Laravel apps. Unfortunately in a morning haze I deleted the wrong file :D</p>
  
  <p>I am using virtual box + vagrant to run a Laravel development environment with Homestead
  laravel [.] com/docs/5.4/homestead</p>
  
  <p>Thankfully all my files are saved locally and mirrored on the vm so everything should be okay right?</p>
  
  <p>When I try to 'vagrant up' and power on the vm I get error VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND opening image file '/Users/user/VirtualBox VMs/homestead-7/box-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) - the one I stupidly deleted. Lesson learned.</p>
  
  <p>Inside the Virtual Box GUI -> homestead-7 (name of the machine) -> settings -> storage -> Controller SATA controller. Should I remove the reference to the deleted file and create a new one? Or should I delete this vm entirely and make a new one?</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell me what to do? Would really appreciate some help here.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks so much</p>