Profile sharing between Parallels 5 and XP worked perfectly, but I can't figure out how to get it to work with a new install of Windows 7 I just installed. If I select all the checkboxes under Shared Profile then I will get the Mac desktop on the Win7 desktop, but I can never get any of the Documents folders to share. My Documents ONLY shows the VM's My Documents folder. I'm pretty new to Windows 7, so I may be missing a setting in there somewhere. How do I get this to work properly?
It's working for me in both Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit. In Windows, I created a new folder in each folder then looked for them on the Mac side. Desktop -> \\.psf\Home\Desktop -> ~/Desktop Downloads -> \\.psf\Home\Downloads -> ~/Downloads Library: Documents -> \\.psf\Home\Documents -> ~/Documents Music -> \\.psf\Home\Music -> ~/Music Pictures -> \\.psf\Home\Pictures -> ~/Pictures Videos -> \\.psf\Home\Movies -> ~/Movies Each Windows folder includes two sub folders. For example, Music contains Music which points to the Mac folder (\\.psf\Home\Music) and Public Music which points to the Windows public Music folder (C:\Users\Public\Music). If you click the main folder (Library > Music), it shows all files from both sub folders. If you just click a sub folder then it shows just the files from that folder. When you turn off Shared Profile, then the Mac Music sub folder reverts to the Windows My Music folder (C:\Users\yourname\Music). You can manually add sub folders to a Library in the Properties window of the Library. You can't add folders from \\.psf though because they're not indexed unless you make the folder available offline which would duplicate all the files. I don't know how to index network files. What you can do is change the location of the Music sub folder from C:\Users\yourname\Music to \\.psf\Home\Music. I think that's what Parallels Tools must do. This gets around the indexing requirement. There's a discussion of adding network folders to a library at http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/4617-libraries-include-network-folder.html There's one post that mentions a utility called "Win7 Library Tool" http://zornsoftware.talsit.info/?p=3
