Disable sharing of entire Mac file structure? Remove startup warning?

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by ATXP, Jan 13, 2007.

  1. ATXP

    ATXP Member

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    This is great.

    NEW! True Drag and Drop functionality - a long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa. Parallels Desktop now shares the entire Mac file structure between OS X and Windows - no more worrying about which copy of the file is the most recently updated!

    But what if I want to disable sharing of the the entire Mac file structure between OS X and Windows and just share certain folders. Can it be done and how do I do it?

    Another thing, every time I startup Parallels and boot my Boot Camp partiton, there's a warning overlay. Can I remove the startup warning overlay or reduce the ime it display itself?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Hugh Watkins

    Hugh Watkins Forum Maven

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    probably with permissions in WinXP

    but do you really want to mak life complicated?

    If you share your computer
    I would just cretae two non admin users for guests
    one mac OS
    the oither Win XP

    Hugh W
     
  3. ATXP

    ATXP Member

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    Thanks. I could do that. But I'm looking for another solution.
     
  4. palter

    palter Hunter

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    My understanding is that this is a configuration option related to drag&drop.
     
  5. claud9999

    claud9999 Bit poster

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    I also still have the warning message. Unluckily, when booting the Boot Camp partition with Parallels, it gave this warning but it got stuck at a boot dialog (saying the hardware had changed, I believe). Anyways, after much waiting, I couldn't do anything so I restarted the WinXP partition and reinstalled the tools. Everything works great now, but I can't get rid of that warning. I'm guessing it's something about the WinXP boot manager or the drive label or something?

    Even creating a new Boot Camp Parallels configuration didn't fix the problem. Oh well, I'll keep ignoring it...
     
  6. dkp

    dkp Forum Maven

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    Shut down your vm and select the Parallels Edit -> Virtual Machine menu. Select Shared Folders. In the right hand window pane near the bottom unselect "Enable global sharing for drag and drop". It would be the very first thing I'd do with any new installation.
     
  7. ATXP

    ATXP Member

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    Thanks guys, I found it eventually. Dumb me.

    The startup warning still bugging me.:D
     

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