Shared drive case sensitive filenames

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by RolfNoot, Jul 12, 2013.

  1. RolfNoot

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    Hi,

    I am testing Parallels for Mac with Windows 7. I've mounted an exFAT drive to the Mac and shared this to a Windows drive. The drive under Windows is seen als network drive and okay till so far.

    Now it seems the drive is treated case sensitive, I can create two files with the same name in the same folder with different capitals. I have a few applications that are expecting a non case-sensitive drive: they are accessing the file: "D:/Directory/File.txt" as following: "d:/directory/file.txt" and thus can't find the file.

    I do not like to mount the drive directly to the Windows VM, I like to access the files on the drive even when Parallels is not running. So the option to share a MAC drive is great, only there should be a selection to share it as case-sensitive or not IMHO.

    For now I like to know if there's a workaround for this, I am thinking about buying Parallels if this will work.

    Regards,
    Rolf
     
  2. Rolf-Noot

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    To bad nobody replies...

    As temporary workaround I mounted the drive directly to the Windows VM, resulting in accessing my files from MAC only when the VM is running. Not an optimal solution.

    Anyone??
     

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