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3 Replies Last post: Aug 8, 2008 6:53 AM by wila
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Copy/paste Windows->OSX

Aug 8, 2008 5:53 AM

Click to view Patrick Mast's profile Novice Patrick Mast 10 posts since
Jun 5, 2008
Hello,

I can not get the copy/paste between a Windows VM and OSX to work.
All I copy in the VM is not transfered to the clipboard on OSX.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

Patrick
Reply Re: Copy/paste Windows->OSX Aug 8, 2008 6:03 AM
Click to view wila's profile Master wila 1,128 posts since
Jun 27, 2006
Hi,

Try re-installing VMware tools.

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Wil
Reply Re: Copy/paste Windows->OSX Aug 8, 2008 6:26 AM
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Click to view Patrick Mast's profile Novice Patrick Mast 10 posts since
Jun 5, 2008
Hi,

I already tried to re-install VMWare-Tools, but still no luck..

Patrick
Reply Re: Copy/paste Windows->OSX Aug 8, 2008 6:53 AM
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Click to view wila's profile Master wila 1,128 posts since
Jun 27, 2006
I read you sometimes have to do that twice in order to get the desired effect, not sure why this is (maybe this is the case if you don't reboot inbetween removal and re-install?)

Additionally you can disable clipbaord sharing in the .vmx virtual hardware configuration file. However this is not an option in the VMware Fusion settings panel, so if you created the virtual machine in Fusion and didn't edit the configuration file, this is not the problem.

Have you tried pasting in a basic application like TextEdit? (just making sure it isn't a 3rd party issue)

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Wil
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