Symptoms
I do not see the Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive shares in my Windows Virtual Machine.
The option labeled "Share cloud folders with Windows" does show as checked in my virtual machine's configuration. I have even tried disabling it and restarting, re-enabling it and restarting. It didn't make a difference.
Cause
Virtual Machine misconfiguration.
Resolution
Reinstall Parallels Tools: with a virtual machine running, click Actions > Reinstall Parallels Tools in the top menu. For more information refer to this article.
Note: when using Microsoft's OneDrive and other cloud-based applications in on the Mac side, you may see only some files being accessible from the Windows side. That is because such apps utilize on-demand file access. That means that instead of storing the files on your Mac, they rather display a kind of shortcuts, and only when the file is being accessed by user, the application downloads the file to Mac, and as a result, it can be shared to Windows.
The below example is for OneDrive settings to be checked and changed to disable on-demand files access settings. All other apps also have similar settings disabling which will allow accessing all files.
In order to have access to all files, the on-demand access feature needs to be disabled:
- On your Mac, click on the OneDrive icon > More > Preferences > Preferences and click Turn Off Files On-Demand.
- It may take some time before all OneDrive files will be accessible on the Windows side.
- Alternatively, you can use the OneDrive for Windows inside the virtual machine.
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