I had totally given up on LbF after troubleshooting for the last 24 hours… different versions of LbF, different versions of VM, trying on my laptop, trying on my desktop…
I was FINALLY able to restore a site in the Local Sites folder by…
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Using the technique described by Clay in the post How to Restore a Site on Local - ***HOWEVER, there should be 2 steps added… one is to STOP the site… and the other is to START again the site. Before implementing these extra steps, Clay’s method was failing in my case
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Deleting DesktopServer completely from my PC - not sure it’s related but…it uses its own Apache libraries I think…so maybe there was a conflict
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Reverting back to 2.2.1 instead of using the 2.2.0 Pre-Release. 2.2.0 was creating a virtual c drive in my root, which was then a duplicate of my Local Sites… not sure why but that was probably NOT a good thing!
So, these 3 things together have made me breathe a huge sigh of relief. Hopefully it provides guidance for others.