I can't seem to get this setup to work so I assume it can't work, but I wanted to be sure.
I sometimes need to manipulate Office files and special PDFs in Windows. I don't like dragging the file from my OS X Dropbox folder to my VM and editing a copy and then moving an updated copy back to dropbox. I don't want to install Dropbox and have the same files downloaded to my Windows machine that are already on my Mac and I don't really want to share the Dropbox contents.
I wanted to create a folder in my Documents folder specifically as a shared folder and wanted to place aliases of files from my Dropbox folder into that shared folder as I need them. They appear in Windows inside the shared folder, but when I open them I get a notice that they cannot be opened and that extension isn't recognized.
So you can't open OS X aliases in Windows via VMWare can you?
I sometimes need to manipulate Office files and special PDFs in Windows. I don't like dragging the file from my OS X Dropbox folder to my VM and editing a copy and then moving an updated copy back to dropbox. I don't want to install Dropbox and have the same files downloaded to my Windows machine that are already on my Mac and I don't really want to share the Dropbox contents.
I wanted to create a folder in my Documents folder specifically as a shared folder and wanted to place aliases of files from my Dropbox folder into that shared folder as I need them. They appear in Windows inside the shared folder, but when I open them I get a notice that they cannot be opened and that extension isn't recognized.
So you can't open OS X aliases in Windows via VMWare can you?