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Michael_Dag
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Workstation 8.0.1 on Windows 7 Pro 64 Host - can not drag and drop to guest

Hi,

after upgrading from WS7 to WS8 and now WS8.0.1 cannot get drag and drop to work, copy past files from host to guest works for windows guests, but drag and drop keeps showing me the 'forbidden' sign...

I read about shared VM's but turned sharing off, rebooted host and VMs but still no luck... 😞

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jeremym
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You cannot drag and drop to/from shared guests.

Regular guests (not yet shared) should be fine.

Sometimes when regular drag-and-drop 'freaks out'..  I hit CTL+ALT+DEL inside the vm..which wakes up both the guest and host.. and somehow starts to allow drag and drop.

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Michael_Dag
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my guests are not shared as far as I know. to be sure I turned off sharing in VM->Preferences

is there some setting in the VM itself that makes it think it is shared? Also with older VM's I see the same... 😞

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jeremym
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My only other suggestion would be.. In the guests.. update the VMware tools.. and if that DOESNT work, then un-install the tools and RE-install the tools.

That has worked several times for me.

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