PD4: Opening a Mac file with a Windows program, browsing the VM package

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I'm trying to open a zip file on my Mac desktop with WinZip. With I right-click and select "Open with", WinZip is not on the list, so I select "Other".

With PD3, I used to be able to browse to the "Windows" application by browsing the VM Applications folder (~/Documents/Parallels/<VM Directory>/Applications. However, with PD4, the VM folder is considered a package so I can't browse it.

If I open up a Finder window, I can right-click and view the package contents that way, but when browsing via the "Open With" dialog, I can't.

What is the Parallels-intended way to do this?
 
You might be able to work around it by browsing to the folder in the Finder using "Show Package Contents" - then take the icon at the top of the folder window and drag and drop it onto the Open With dialog box.
 
I only noticed this today because I had some other OS X issues for which I had to delete some caches. This may have caused the "open with" list to reset. Now, WinZip shows up in that list, so it was just a matter of time.

Thanks.
 
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