Shared folders and the BSOD

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WaveyDavey

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Each and every time I try to save my work in a shared folder, I get the Blue Screen Of Death. The Win XP VM inevitably crashes, does a disk check, then boots up. I've tried deleting all my nominated shared folders, making new ones, changing locations - all to no avail. I've scoured this forum but can't find any workrounds.

Anyone else with this problem? Any suggestions?

Incidentally, I've just upgraded to the latest build - problem still occurs.

TIA,
Dave
 
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Abanks - sorry for the laggy response, been away on business.

Thanks for the reply. But I haven't actually managed to get as far as opening a shared folder yet, so filenames are not a concern. Once I open the Shared Folder icon on the XP desktop, the VM crashes right out.

I'm not using any app to save to that path, just dragging & dropping from the desktop.

Judging by the lack of anyone else chiming, this looks like a problem with my installation only, rather than a general bug. I'd still welcome any theories, workarounds, hints, etc!

Cheers,
Dave
 
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Dave - I have observed similar issues with Shared Folders in Parallels, so hopefully this helps you in your situation.

What I have noticed is the the issues seem to behave differently depending if I use a mapped drive to the share location VS the UNC path.

For instance, I have mapped one of my shared folders to the z: drive under XP.
z: = \\.PSF\Data

If I try to run a .net executable from location z:\Data\Projects\TestProject\test.exe I will get an error "test has encountered a problem and needs to close..." with the standard MS Debug/Send Error Report dialog.

However, if I use the UNC path: \\.PSF\Data\Projects\TestProject\test.exe - the application runs fine.

Conversely, I've had other problems with Outlook datafiles being placed using the UNC path, when the z: drive mapping worked better. I've since removed the Outlook datafiles because I ran into data corruption issues...

Just my observations to date.

Cheers,

Joe
 
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MrJoe - interesting.... will have a play later tonight.

But don't forget that I'm not saving out of applications to a mapped shared folder, but simply dropping and dragging (photos, actually) onto a folder that my Mac will pick up, for later archiving. Still, top tip. May be a decent workaround... thanks!
 
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Shared microsoft files

I am continously encountering issues when i go to save microsoft files in my shared folders. I don't have any problems loading files but when i try to save the BSoD appears with a memory dump.

The file names are quite long and contain spaces (total 25 characters and spacing) is this the issue?

Example
\\.PSF\My Documents\Accounting\Financial Statements\Mar 07\XXX Fin Stat Mar 07-Aud V1.doc

Can anyone shed any light on this annoying problem?
 
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