The title pretty much makes the point. I am working around the problem by using shared folders, which do work between the guest and host.
When doing a d&d or c&p, the Error while copying dialog detail says 'Error when getting information for file "/Zsv1YQ/<filename>": No such file or directory'I
It appears to be one-way. I can move TO the guest, but not TO the host.
This is reproducible. I've restarted the systems, I've restarted (/etc/init.d/vmware restart) on the host, and restarted vmware-tools on the guest. Nothing has resolved the problem.
All of this was working fine prior to the upgrade (from 15.5.2).
vmtoolsd -v reports 10.3.21.249 (build-14772444)
I have also tried it with open-vm-tools 11.05.17716 and VMwae Tools for MS-Windows 11.0.5 with the same results.
HOWEVER, upgrading MS-Windows to 11.0.6 fixed the problem there. So I manually built open-vm-tools 11.1.0 from source. No success.
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This is now a bug against open-vm-tools: Linux Guests (Mint 19.3) on Linux (19.3) hosts no longer have drag 'n drop or cut & paste support fo...
Message was edited by: Noel
Changed to add current status.
