Workstation User’s Manual
188 VMware, Inc.
Whenyoudragafileorfolderfromhosttovirtualmachineorthereverse,Workstation
copiesthefileorfoldertothelocationwhereyoudropit.Forexample,ifyoudropafile
onthedesktopiconofawordprocessor,thewordprocessoropenswithacopyofthe
ori
gi
nalfile.Theoriginalfiledoesnotreflectanychangesyoumaketothecopy.
Initially,theapplicationopensusingacopyofthefilethatisstoredinyourtemp
directory.OnWindows,thisisthedirectoryspecifiedinthe%TEMP%environment
variable,andonLinuxandSolaris,itisthe/t
mp/VMwareDnDdirectory.Toprotectany
changesyoumake,selectFile>SaveAsfromtheapplicationmenuandsavethefilein
adifferentdirectory.
YoucandragimagesbetweenapplicationsonWindowshostsandapplicationsonlyon
Windowsguests,ineitherdirection.Youcanalsodragplaintext,formattedtext,and
emailattachmentsb
etweenapplicationsonWindowsandLinuxhostsandguestsin
anycombination,ineitherdirection.Draggingemailattachmentsisespeciallyusefulin
Unitymode.
Thedrag‐and‐dropfeaturehasthefollowingrestrictions:
Draggingemailattachmentsisrestrictedtoimagesorfilessmallerthan4MB.
Draggingplaintextandformattedtext(includingtheformatting)isrestrictedto
amountslessthan4MB.
DraggingtextisrestrictedtotextinlanguagesthatcanberepresentedbyUnicode
characters.
WorkstationusesthePNGformattoencodeimagesthataredragged.Dragging
imagesisrestrictedtoimagessmallerthan4MBafterconversiontoPNGformat.
DraggingimagesisnotsupportedforLinuxhostsorguests.
OnWindows95andWindows98guests,thedrag‐and‐dropfeatureissupported
onlyforfilesanddirectories.
Enable or Disable the Drag-and-Drop Feature
Topreventdragginganddroppingbetweenvirtualmachinesandthehost,disablethe
drag‐and‐dropfeature.Beforeyoubegin,makesureVMwareToolsisinstalledonthe
virtualmachine.
To enable or disable the drag-and-drop feature
1StartWorkstationandselectthevirtualmachine.
2 ChooseVM>Settings.
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