Hello, I am a new to Parallels and find the co-mingling of operating systems to be a bit confusing. The only reason I'm using it is to get away from the restarting required in Boot Camp. So, what I'd like to do it to set Parallels up so that the different operating systems are completely separate from each other with the exception of one common folder used for the transfer of files. I'd also like to prevent the same folders, files, and links from appearing on the different desktops. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance. Tom
Hi @ThomasM13 , just to confirm, do you want to create multiple virtual machine and have one common folder to share the files between them?
Actually, I believe the Parallels Shared Folder is the common folder I'm looking for. I didn't realize this when I contacted you. The problem I'm really trying to solve concerns backing up the Virtual Machines; this is difficult because they are just one big file. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up the main OS X 10.11 computer (Carbon Copy Cloner is great because it does incremental backups). I believe that I can largely solve my virtual machines backup problem by storing all of the data these virtual machines use in the Parallels Shared Folder. As Carbon Copy Cloner will see these as separate files, it will will do incremental backups on them. Does this make sense to you? Are there any problems with doing this?
