Parallels - Mac Upgrade for Tiger Disabled Drag & Drop?

On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:17 AM, David Clark wrote:

> Has anyone heard that the drag & drop feature of Parallels which
> enables one to drag a windows file over to the Mac side has been
> disabled by the latest Tiger upgrade?
>
> After hours trying to figure out why we could not drag & drop a PDF
> from Windoze to the Mac side, that's what Parallels Tech Support told
> us yesterday afternoon.


You could create a "Shared" folder that lives in both environments.
Then just drag and drop to and from that folder. I haven't used
Parallels in months (since switching to Fusion), but if I remember
correctly there was an easy way to do that from the top menus.

Regards,

Howard

Dear Dave,

this is a known issue.

Here's an excerpt from thread http://forum.parallels.com/
showthread.php?t=18598 where a Parallel's team member wrote:

"Unfortunately, drag and drop in 5582+Tiger is a known issue and we
are already investigating it in-house. If drag and drop function is
critical for you, the only way to solve it for now - to downgrade to
5160. I'm awfully sorry for the inconvenience."

In another posting they told that the fix would be already in QA - so
I hope (like you and many others) that it will fixed be in the next
update.

Hope that helps

Kind regards

Christoph Reichenberger
Ergonis Software
http://www.ergonis.com

David Clark wrote:
> Has anyone heard that the drag & drop feature of Parallels which
> enables one to drag a windows file over to the Mac side has been
> disabled by the latest Tiger upgrade?
>
> After hours trying to figure out why we could not drag & drop a PDF
> from Windoze to the Mac side, that's what Parallels Tech Support told
> us yesterday afternoon.

        Use a Parallels Shared Folder or just email it to yourself?


                                                Chris
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On 9-Jan-2008, at 08:17, David Clark wrote:
> I've got a Timeslips billing invoice in PDf on the Windoze desktop
> and need to put it onto the Mac side. Just cannot get it to happen.


Can't you just copy it to the shared folder within parallels? Not as
convenient, I'll grant, but still it seems to work fine OMM.

--
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>> I've got a Timeslips billing invoice in PDf on the Windoze desktop
>> and need to put it onto the Mac side. Just cannot get it to happen.
>
>
> Can't you just copy it to the shared folder within parallels? Not as
> convenient, I'll grant, but still it seems to work fine OMM.

If shared folders aren't working, you could turn on Windows sharing
and mount your Mac home directory as a network volume.

I couldn't get it to the shared folder either, and I refuse to use
Windoze to connect to the Internet to mail it.

This morning I tried to copy it from the Windoze desktop to a thumb
drive, then look at it in Mac. That would not work and the Mac
couldn't read or see the file.

So, the workaround was to print the file out, then scan it on a
different machine and Email it to myself.

Thanks for all the suggestions.


Dave Clark

David Clark wrote:
> I couldn't get it to the shared folder either, and I refuse to use
> Windoze to connect to the Internet to mail it.
>
> This morning I tried to copy it from the Windoze desktop to a thumb
> drive, then look at it in Mac. That would not work and the Mac
> couldn't read or see the file.
>
> So, the workaround was to print the file out, then scan it on a
> different machine and Email it to myself.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.

        Note that Parallels 3 has a feature to mount the Parallels hard disk
file as a volume on the Mac. I'd forgotten about this because I don't
use it (I just use a shared folder), but on my system, my Parallels C:
drive shows up as something like "ANCHO [C]" via the magic of
MacFUSE/ntfs-3g (built into Parallels).


                                                Chris