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

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ATXP

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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.
 
ATXP said:
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?


Thanks.
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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
 
ATXP said:
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?
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My understanding is that this is a configuration option related to drag&drop.
 
ATXP said:
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.
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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...
 
ATXP said:
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?


Thanks.
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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.
 
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