Thank-you again btw.
Reviewing the contents of dir Zero's, I do not see any file named "zero.vmdk" present as a text file. All the vmdk's for Zero, numbering 001-042, seem to be accounted for in the screenshot I've appended to this post, with relevant file sizes, etc., showing in the list/details view.
If you go back to the appended docs I uploaded in my first/intro post to this thread, there is a screen capture taken of the dir zero contents (sans specific file info, just file names are showing), called VMware Zero folder contents. I'll upload another shot of the folder in similar view to this post--I don't see any text file named 'zero.vmdk', so unless I'm missing something the text file "zero.vmdk" you've requested is AWOL.