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  • 1.  Shared Folder read is slow on Fusion 10 and Windows 10

    Posted Oct 30, 2017 08:45 PM

    Hello,

    I'm having an issue reading from my shared folders. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM. I have my processor and RAM split in half for the VM. When I download a file in Safari, it goes to my Downloads folder in MacOS. I then go to my VM and attempt to transfer it from my Shared Downloads folder to a different location with the VM and it's incredibly slow. An approximately 250MB file took 3 hours to transfer. I've resorted to using a USB thumb drive but this should be necessary.

    Thoughts?



  • 2.  RE: Shared Folder read is slow on Fusion 10 and Windows 10

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 31, 2017 09:11 PM

    Hi there,

    Sorry to hear you're hitting this issue.

    What guest OS are you using?

    What version of macOS is on the Mac?

    Have you tried re-installing VMware Tools?



  • 3.  RE: Shared Folder read is slow on Fusion 10 and Windows 10

    Posted Nov 02, 2017 07:47 PM

    Sorry, just posted a reply to an old thread--- didn't see this current one.

    I too am having same problem. Setup:

    10.0.1

    Mac os 10.12.6

    13" Macbook Pro 8/512 i5

    Reinstalled tools

    Restarted VM and Mac

    Still very slow. Any thoughts or anything I should try?



  • 4.  RE: Shared Folder read is slow on Fusion 10 and Windows 10

    Posted Nov 06, 2017 08:27 PM

    I tried your suggestion and that didn't seem to help. Here is my setup:

    MacOS 10.13.1

    Windows 10 (Completely up-to-date)

    VMware Fusion 10.0.1

    15" MacBook Pro (Late 2016) i7/16GB RAM/512GB SSD



  • 5.  RE: Shared Folder read is slow on Fusion 10 and Windows 10
    Best Answer

    Posted Nov 07, 2017 03:59 PM

    I have an update. I uninstalled and reinstalled VMware Tools and the problem persisted. On a whim, I tried to transfer a large .zip file on to the Desktop of the Windows VM. That worked and the transfer was really fast.

    If I try to transfer to within my OneDrive folder, then it's really, really slow. So, that's the difference. As long as I'm transferring to a folder that's not synced, the transfer works fine.