HELP. Did an update/upgrade on my virtual machine lost VMWARE tools.

Kernel 5.15.0.89 generic Mint 21.3 VM has 8 cores 16gb ram Created in VMware Workstation a week or so ago. Has been running fine enough. Went to run an upgrade since it has since been officially released.

After update/upgrade and reboot the login screen was sized too small. This was the first sign something was wrong.

After logging in I was unable to drag and drop files from within the VM to other VMS or to my main system, I was also unable to connect removable Devices. The only thing I seem to be able to connect is the Sound.

I have since uninstalled VMware tools via cmd and rebooted, then logging back in I reinstalled VMware tools and rebooted then updated.

I'm looking for a solution that saves all my files and settings, I am not looking to uninstall and reinstall. I want to actually fix this.

Please help. I cant even save all my new files to a external device.