VMware Fusion 8 Shared Folders read only (Win 7x64 or 10x64)

[mijn]

I searched already for a solution but nothing helped so far.

In all my VM's (running Windows 7 or 10) shared folders are read only.

Re-Installing VMware tools did not help.

Making folders on OS X public did not help.

VMware Fusion 8.1.0 on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 

same on Mac OS X 10.10.

regards

Michael

[wila]

Hello,

Did you set the share as read-write?

Eg. Menu -> Virtual Machine -> Sharing -> Sharing Setting

brings you to the screen where you define and enable/disable your shares.

The last column on the list has how your share is setup, this can be "read-write" but also can be "read-Only"

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Wil

[mijn]

Thanks for reply

But I checked this first and it was set to "read-write"

Michael

[wila]

Hi,

Hmm.. if you have set that to read-write and your folders are writable from your normal user account within OS X then normally they should be writable.

Especially as you appear to have read only access.

Re-installing VMware Tools usually only fixes issues if you uninstall from within the guest (via add remove software), reboot the guest, install VMware Tools and again reboot VMware Tools.

Are you using some sort of antivirus product at the OS X end?

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Wil

[mijn]

I use Avast, de-installed, restarted but problem persists.

Second Mac (OS X 10.10) has no antivirus

Attached vmx file

Mike

Edit:

Uninstalled and removed everything vmware,

Problem persists although no antivirus, no firewall

[mijn]

Did a fresh installation of Windows 10 in a new VM, same result, same problem.

I am lost ...

[wila]

Hi,

Sorry too much things going on here, haven't been able to follow up.

What I probably would do in your case is uninstall VMware Fusion itself and re-install as it appears that something might be wrong with the install itself.

If that doesn't help.. please open a support ticket. https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/get-help

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Wil

[mijn]

I tried everything, but nothing helps. so I will open a ticket.

Thanks for trying to help

regards

Mike

[vmxmr]

Could this be a Mac file protection issue? I have seen problems like this where multiple accounts on the Mac use the /Users/Shared folder, so the account running VMware Fusion could read files but not write them.