One possible solution - the hard drive I'm working from was cloned from another drive 2 weeks ago. A such, the former drive should have a fully functioning copy of Fusion with a working VM on it, just 2 week sold. Is it possible to take my old .vmdx file from that drive and replace the possibly corrupted one on the current drive?
I don't have Time Machine backups of my VM file, which in reading here is not a failsafe method of backing up a VM. I use the VM to run Microsoft Money in Windows 7 and have many years worth of financial records in it. I swore I was backing up Money to my Mac regularly so if I ever had to create a new VM it would not be a problem, but that appears to have not been working for quite some time. Even if the above solution means losing 2 weeks of history, that's better than losing everything. I wonder though if a dated .vmdx file pointed to more current sparse files might work.
I really appreciate any help anyone can provide. As you can probably read from my questions, I have no experience with this stuff. I'm happy to provide any additional information to help diagnose my issue. Thanks.