I installed Ubuntu 22.04 and I can only copy small png files with copy and paste.
I can't do any files that are more then 20-50 Mb, then the window just closes,
Drag and drop does not work either.
I spent hours on this, and can't figure it out.
This is what I all did
- Checkboxes unchecked and checked and rebooted
- uninstall open vm ware tools and re-installed and rebooted
- tried uninstall open vm ware tools, and installed the standard vmware tools, but that fails to install. since it cannot find certain items, like net3 and some other things ?
any other suggestions?
here are also 2 screens that shows the errors
Also I am using the latest version of VMworkstation Pro.
Hey Bro!
Please try this:
sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop beside sudo apt install open-vm-tools.
It shoud have solved the problem for you.
I tried that as well, and no difference
root@pk-virtual-machine:/home/pk# sudo apt install open-vm-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
open-vm-tools is already the newest version (2:11.3.5-1ubuntu4).
open-vm-tools set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@pk-virtual-machine:/home/pk# sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
open-vm-tools-desktop is already the newest version (2:11.3.5-1ubuntu4).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
hi bro,you are very good!I'm happy to tell you the truth that I have made it with your tips.Thanks!
Any luck? I have the same issue
This problem seems to be old, I had it at least in Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, in VMWare 17, previously 16, and maybe 15 too (always the same VM, I've been using it forever over different upgrades).
I got 2 distinct situations plus an observation.
Today I discovered that in case 2, the files *are* copied to the VM, just not moved to the right location.
All files I ever dropped-and-failed were in ~/.cache/vmware/drag_and_drop/xxxxxx/ in the VM -- it went back to 2019.
xxxxxx is a temp name, a random string of 6 letters and digits. Just sort the drag_and_drop directory by Modified time in Files to find the most recent one.
".cache" is hidden, don't forget to turn on 'show hidden files'.
It might also be a good idea to clear the directory out from time to time, especially if you have been trying again and again to drop some large files in there, as I had 🙂
-- EDIT --
Sorry for mixing this into a "copy and paste" thread, I thought I was replying in another thread I read 15 minutes earlier. 😞
Tried unchecking/rechecking the options too etc., and also this that I found somewhere else.
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences use-experimental-views false
It didn't help.
I am having the EXACT same problem. Found the drag and dropped file in the cache folder, etc. Tried the same solutions. Not sure what's up there. Is this a VMWare issue or an Ubuntu issue? Wondering if VirtualBox or Parallels would resolve this issue.