Moving files between VM and Mac

Discussion in 'macOS Virtual Machine' started by alex silver, Mar 20, 2009.

  1. alex silver

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    Hi All,

    I am running Parallels 4.0 on my MacBook. I have Windows XP loaded on the VM

    The main reason i have Paralells is so that i can run Outlook 2007 with it's full exchange support on my Mac.

    I almost always use Parallels in coherence mode, unless i need to work on the actual windows operating system.

    I have expose enabled on my computer and the upper left is "show desktop

    I get a lot of attachments in Outlook. If i was running a true mac app, i would drag the attachment from the email to the upper left hand corner of the screen ("). I would then just drop the attachment on the desktop.

    With parallels, i can't seem to get this to work. If i am holding an attachment with the mouse, expose doesn't seem to work. I push the cursor to the upper left hand corner, but their is no reaction. I need to save the file to the mac desktop in order to move it there.

    I also tried option clicking the file in outlook and clicking copy. I can then paste to the desktop in windows, but not to the desktop on the Mac.

    Also, I can't seem to drag and drop from the vm to a mac program. - Example

    - I put the vm into window view.
    - I try and drag a file from the pc desktop to skype running on the mac in order to send it to someone via skype.
    - Doesn't work. Skype doesn't even register that i am trying to drop something into it.

    If i take the same exact file from my mac desktop i can drag and drop easily into Skype.
    Is there any way to get these two features to work with Paralells?

    Hope my questions are clear.

    Thank you,
    Alex
     
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