$RECYCLE.BIN showing up in ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads since updating to Fusion Pro 8.1.1.

[JuanGuapo]

Since upgrading to Fusion Professional Version 8.1.1 (3771013), I'm noticing an anomaly with semi-hidden $RECYCLE.BIN folders showing up on the Desktop and in the Downloads folder of my MacBook Pro (specs below).

I know this is part of using the shared/mirrored folders functionality, however, the $RECYCLE.BIN folder is new, and wasn't showing (at least candidly) prior to the last update. Turning off Shared/Mirrored folders resolves the issue but that's more a workaround than a fix.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

1TB PCIe SSD, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2GB VRAM

2.5 GHz Intel Core i7

Mac OS X "El Capitan" 10.11.4

Windows 10 x64 (VM)

[ciccioformaggio]

Same thing here, it would be nice to have somebody at vmware to take a look at this.

[melinerunen]

This is perfecly normal. Every folder under windows does have those subfolders. Is used by windows to know where the deleted files come from and other stuff. On network mapped devices this does not happen because Windows doesn't enable the recycle for those folders. Since you mirrored your user folders (downloads, etc) to windows the only way to do this is to trick windows that those folders are physical located on the disc and not as a network mapped drive.

As long as you share them as mirrorerd you'll get those files as well. The same goes to the mac hidden files on windows. Everytime I use a pendrive in mac, when i open it on windows a lot of "garbage" files appears.