Why are there too many vmdk files?

I use vmware workstation 8 to end of software testing. Both the guest and the host Windows 7 64 bit.

I have 12 shots with the guest. I found that there are 283 files vmdk, which takes about 420 GB of disk space.

Now, I deleted all of the snapshots, but there are still 259 files vmdk, who take 395 GB of disk space.

As I deleted all of the snapshots, now the guest is just a pure installs Windows 7. It should take no more than 10 GB.
Any suggestion?

Thank you.

Wow! The directory listing shows 281 snapshots that dose of course not jive with the dictionary of snapshot (file .vmsd) If you have a mess on your hands.

Not completely sure that you are the ultimate goal here is however I suggest creating a new virtual hard disk using vmware-vdiskmanager pointing towards "w7 64 - 000281.vmdk" as source and then swap out.

Also the list of directories being incomplete, it displays only the hard files, I can't you what else to clean the other then delete the file .vmsd if you choose to consolidate snapshots of the "w7 64.vmdk" file using vmware-vdiskmanager.

Note: DON'T do anything without having a full and correct virtual machine backup before you continue!

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