Cut and paste from Explorer annoyance

[VincentVega]

I've recently upgraded to Fusion 1.1.2. All is working well, aside from an issue I'm getting with cutting and pasting files from Windows Explorer. If I cut a file in Explorer (select the file and press CTRL-X), the file gets copied to the clipboard. Its icon in Explorer fades out a little. If I then move my mouse out of the Fusion window, the clipboard gets emptied and the icon returns to normal. I have tried creating a new VM and I am using the latest version of VMWare Tools. I am also using XP with SP3, if that makes any difference.

I don't remember this behaviour in pre-1.1.2 builds - is it a bug or is it intentional? If intentional, is there any way of turning it off?

Oh, and one more issue: the ENTER key on the numeric keypad doesn't work! Doesn't do anything at all - the rest of the keypad works fine. This is the Apple Bluetooth keyboard (non-aluminium) with a Mac Pro.

[rcardona2k]

I see the behavior you're talking about only the focus returns back to the XP SP3 machine. I cut an icon, it dims, I click out to the Finder (icon remains dimmed) and when I click back into XP SP3 the Explorer undims the icon. I don't have to switch applications, just mousing out of Fusion and back in loses the clipboard.

Maybe something about the clipboard handling in the Tools causes this I'm not sure.

[Bob_Zimmerman]

Regarding the file cut issue, what are you expecting to happen? This is a serious question.

Keep in mind that on a Mac, Enter and Return are actually two different keys. It could be that there isn't a mapping to make Enter presses the same as Return presses.

[VincentVega]

I'm expecting nothing to happen - the file should remain on the clipboard until I do another cut or copy (which could be another file, a piece of text in Word or an image in Paint). Going from XP to OS X and back shouldn't clear the Windows clipboard: all I'm doing is switching focus from Fusion to, say, Safari, doing a it of surfing and then going back to Fusion.

For example, I have a couple of Explorer windows open. I cut a couple of files from one window and move the mouse to the bottom of the Fusion window to the task bar. I want to switch to my other Explorer window and paste the files into there. If I'm a little sloppy with my mouse control and let the pointer stray out of the Fusion window, even by a couple of pixels, the clipboard gets cleared. I haven't done anything on the Mac or in Windows to change the content of the clipboard, so why has Fusion cleared it for me?

[Bob_Zimmerman]

Alright. I wanted to be sure you weren't expecting to be able to cut the file from Explorer and paste it into the Finder or another VM.

[rcardona2k]

I tried to selectively disable sharing the clipboard and drag-n-drop via the configuration file and neither changes the outcome, I still lose the Explorer selection. Maybe you could contact VMware support about this.