VisualStudio delayed write failed

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If i put my macbookpro to sleep (by shutting the lid, as I often do) and have Visual Studio (2005) running (in XP bootcamp), when it wakes I'm presented with a bunch of "Windows delayed write failed" messages.

The visual studio project is on a network drive (mac with windows file sharing because it seems more stable than parallels shared folders).

Perhaps when the virtual machine goes to sleep it is not writing out all of its caches... or perhaps it's trying to write out its cache before going to sleep, but the mac's windows file sharing has already gone to sleep.....?

I'm a little bit worried about data loss or corruption.

Anyone have a solution?

-matt
 
Ankou said:
What build of Parallels are you using?
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Parallels 3.0 Build 4128.
Mac OS X 10.4.9.
Windows XP SP2.
Visual Studio Express C++ 2005.

Visual studio project stored on network drive (p:) (mapped to \\macbookpro\path) which is a share from Apple's "Windows File Sharing".
 
Guys, I don't think this is a parallels issue. I had the same problem on my old Dell laptop running Windows and connected to an external USB hard drive.

Visual Studio (and various other products) do a kind of file system write operation where they tell the OS to write some data and then they assume its done. When you put your computer to sleep all file handles on external and networked drives are closed, preventing the OS from completing the operation. This then causes the 'delayed write' problem.

Once I found some of my Visual Studio project files became corrupted because of this. For this reason I stopped having my projects on external drives - if I can't avoid that then I copy files locally before opening them.
 
Argh.

Parallels won't start off a bootcamp partition if there is any other PC writable (FAT / NTFS) partitions attached to the system. They must be physically disconnected to start. This is a real pain.
 
I have a similar problem with the latest version of Visual Studio Code. The compile creates an error stating I need to move my project off of a network drive to a physical drive. Even if I move the project to a physical drive - like a USB-C SSD connected to the MAC, I get the same error. I didn't try a USB stick connected to Windows.
I have File sharing turned ON, if I turn it off while running Visual Studiio, will this fix the problem?
 
LeeP7 said:
I have a similar problem with the latest version of Visual Studio Code. The compile creates an error stating I need to move my project off of a network drive to a physical drive. Even if I move the project to a physical drive - like a USB-C SSD connected to the MAC, I get the same error. I didn't try a USB stick connected to Windows.
I have File sharing turned ON, if I turn it off while running Visual Studiio, will this fix the problem?
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Hello,
As a possible solution, kindly follow the below steps:
1. To disable Shared Profile, simply open the virtual machine's configuration, go to Options > Sharing > Share Mac, and uncheck Mirror Mac and Windows user folders.

If the issue persists, kindly try the below solution:
1. Isolate your Windows Virtual Machine by following the steps in this article: https://kb.parallels.com/112942
Thanks
 
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