Hi Phil,
The shared folders should let you create and minipulate files and
folders in the shared folder. I also do this in my dropbox and my documents
folder as well as my desktop and all works well in VM fusion with windows 7.
I'm using VM Fusion 5.
Eric Caron
On Jul 9, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have the "documents" folder, and my "dropbox" folder set as shared
> folders in my Windows7 VM. I am able to access and edit folders in the
> Dropbox folder, but I tried to write a word document (.doc) to the documents
> folder, and no joy - it didn't show up there.
> Question: Is it the case that the VM can only read/write existing files in
> shared folders, and not actually create new files there?
> I'm trying to figure out why the test file I created in Microsoft Word didn't
> save into the mac's documents folder. I can access and browse the folder, but
> I couldn't create anything into it.
>
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