I installed the latest beta. Went in painlessly and I started up an XP Pro SP2 machine and installed the latest tools. When I restarted it after the install, the shared folders were gone. Anyone know what I need to do to get them back? John
John, Are they totally missing? Or it's just no shortcut available on the Win desktop? Will pointing Explorer to \\.psf give you access to Shared Folders? Regards, Tim
Your lucky. I cannot get the Parallels tools to install and so far no-one from Parallels has responded to my questions. Robin
When I run \\.psf an explorer window comes up. It is title "Parallels Shared Folders (.psf)". It is empty and I cannot paste anything into it.
Nope. NOTHING happens. Not a damn thing other than the menu option changing to CANCEL Installation. I have left it for over an hour............... Robin
Same problem for me, it disappeared from the desktop, even though in the vm edit it shows an active and enabled shared folder.
Shared Folders Have Returned I shutdown then VM and then went into the VM editor and removed and readded all of my shared folders. They are now working (except that desktop icon is gone.) John
Desktop shortcut is back now too I'm a *nix guy, not much of a Windows user. Took me a moment to realize that I could recreate the desktop icon. Manually recreated the shortcut, so that is back now too.
I am experiencing the same issues described earlier (installing share takes forever). Found it is related to an issue installing the network service needed for this. When I try to manually install the "Parallels Shared Folders Network Provider" the dialog where I should be able to select the .inf does not show up and processor load goes up to 100%. Hope someone can fix this.
I installed the new Aug 7 beta with no problems, and the Shared Folders are still there. I do have a small problem with shared folders that does not seem to have changed in this beta. I created two shared folders, one is my Desktop and the other is simply the main folder of my identity on OSX. The Desktop folder crashes whenever I try to access it ("Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close..."). However it works fine on the shared folder that is linked directly to my Identity. I am GUESSING that the identiy folder (called "Michael" resides closer to the to of the root, and so requires fewer "clicks" to reach, whereas the Desktop folder actually resides one layer below the identity folder. That's all I can come up with. Anyhow, I did not notice any improvement in access time. Then again, it's not a big issue for me.
Did you update your Parallels Additions? I find that shared folders are MUCH faster under this new beta build. Robin
