File Sharing Problem

[Jimw]

I am trying to use Vegas Video 7 on XP Pro within Parallels, for a 2 hour video project made up of many large media files.

I am experiencing a problem when Vegas loads my project. Its a process that takes several minutes, durring which, all of a sudden it cannot see the files that it loaded from the shared parallels directory. Its like the files dissapear. In fact I go to reconnnect the file from within Vegas and NOTHING appears within the shared directory. Although this could in some way be a Vegas problem, I doubt it is the real cause. Vegas just accepts that the files can go offline, but is somehow being tricked by Parallels.

I've read of others in the past having problems with windows explorer timing out and acting flaky on shared folders within parallels. Has anyone else experienced problems such as this on the latest release, 1970?

Thanks for any help. This is putting a big stop to my plans for the day...
Jim

 

[joem]

One possible solution would be to use a network connection between your host and VM if your program will open files on network drives.

Another solution would be to create another large virtual disk, attach it as a second disk to your VM, copy the files into it (over the network) and access them locally (on D).

There have been many reported problems with folder sharing, and apparently not all of the bugs have been fixed.

 

[Jimw]

I did'nt want to share my entire MacPro for XP to see, via network, for security reasons. I also read that it would be slower. I'll explore the second virtual disk idea though, hopefully I can create one that is almost 500Gig.... Thanks.
Jim

 

[joem]

You can share any folder you like, so it doesn't have to be the entire machine.

If you set up an expanding disk, you can move a few files to it, then delete them from the host and recover the space, then transfer a few more and delete them, etc. so you don't need space for two copies. The expanding disk will expand as necessary to hold whatever you put in it.