Upgraded from V5 to V6 and now have a '[C] Windows 7' drive copy on my desktop

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paul777

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Upgraded from V5 to V6 and now have a '[C] Windows 7' drive copy on my desktop. Why is this? I can right click and close it if I like and the 'real' virtual machine is still running.

On another note (hopefully someone will be able to answer here, because getting thru to company support is a twilight zone trick). I have the mobile app installed and it sees my Mac but does not see the virtual machine 'Windows 7' . Any solutions or suggestions?
 
as to the hard drive appearing on your mac's desktop, it's in configuration:
- open the vm
- select "Virtual Machine" from the menu bar, then select "Configure..."
- select the "Options" tab
- select the "Sharing" node
- uncheck "Access Windows folders from Mac" in the "Share Windows" group

parallels just mounted the VM's HDD on your desktop to make it "easier" to copy stuff between your Mac and Windows.

as to the Mobile App...it's buggy and isn't working correctly ( big surprise ) so i wouldn't expect much out of it. i can see my mac, but it won't let me select it. some users have reported getting a little further by creating a new Mac user, copying your VMs over there and trying that way - something i am unwilling to try.
 
Thanks!

Thanks Tony. Great answer. I was also wondering why it puts the [C] in front of the drive name. Any Mac related drive e.g. iDisk that is shows on the desktop does not have this. I thought maybe it had to do with the upgrade and somehow there might have been an extra 'copy' floating around and that extra copy was causing the mobile problem and not seeing the correct virtual machine
 
Parallels adds the [C] in front of the drive name, because Windows names its drives with letters. way back when computers had floppy drives, they were A and B. the first hard disk drive was usually C. CD-Drives are usually D (unless you have another hard drive, which will usually be D) and so on, so forth.
 
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