Shared Applications - Not building a list of mac apps

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Geesu, Sep 24, 2008.

  1. Geesu

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    I have shared applications turned on in my windows virtual machine but it's not building a list of applications in:

    C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Parallels\Shared Applications

    There are currently 3 items in this folder, QuickTime, VLC, and Adobe Flash CS3

    I tried shutting off the VM, turning sharing off, starting vm, shutting down vm, turning on sharing, starting up (hoping it would reset everything). All that happened is I now have 3 apps listed instead of all of my OS X apps.

    Is there a manual process/option to rebuild this list?

    Edit: I found the populate option in the drop down and selected it - now there are NO applications in the above folder :( :( :(

    Running parallels 3.0 Build 5608

    Thanks!
    Josh
     
    Last edited: Sep 24, 2008
  2. John@Parallels

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    I suppose you have antivirus which blocks Mac OS applications to be listed in there, as it is helper executables
     
  3. Geesu

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    Antivirus on windows or on os x?

    I have no OS X antivirus and my McAfee is disabled on the guest OS.

    In the past Parallels has worked fine in doing this. One thing I may mention which may help is I originally had Parallels installed, then uninstalled it and tried VMWare Fusion. Which I uninstalled and then installed Parallels again. (using Boot Camp partition)
     
  4. John@Parallels

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    Could you please uninstall MacAffey and check once again, I sill believe that antivirus may cause problem,
    You can install it back if I am somehow wrong
     
  5. Geesu

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    Unfortunately I tried this and it didn't work. I even restarted and tried to populate again :(

    Is there some debug mode I could turn on or a log file somewhere I could check which may point to the problem?
     
  6. John@Parallels

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    Probably you can see some errors in Application and System log
     
  7. Geesu

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    Nothing in "All Messages" or "Console messages" when I fire up Utilities -> Console

    Any other ideas? I want PDFs to open with Preview :(

    Would it be possible for someone to post his/her Shared Applications folder and I could just dump that? I only need the default OS X apps - nothing 3rd party
     
  8. John@Parallels

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    Probably, I was not clear, I meant on Window side
     
  9. Geesu

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    Nothing in Application/Security/System. I cleared the log before running it.
     
  10. John@Parallels

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    Is it possible to run Population while filemon.exe from sysinternals.com is running?
    Probably you will see access denied?
     
  11. Geesu

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    Ran it - here is the log:http://geesu.net/dump/Filemon.LOG

    I only noticed a few things that were odd:
    iSpeed.exe wasn't found
    sharing violation in windows/system32/config/system
    windows/system32/entapi.dll not found
    windows/apppatch/systest.sdb not found

    Not really sure what to make of any of them
     
  12. Geesu

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    ** FOUND SOLUTION ** !!

    When I saw the "not found" in the logs I thought that perhaps a file was missing in Parallels Tools - so I reinstalled them (Actions -> Install Parallel Tools). I chose custom and made sure all were checked.

    Rebooted - and now I have the list :)

    Thanks!
     

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