Working With Shared Files and Folders

Parallels Desktop allows you to open some files, located in the virtual machine shared folders, in Mac OS X applications. It may become useful if, for example, you cannot open a file in the virtual machine applications. Just right-click the file in the virtual machine and choose Open on Mac from the context menu. For example, if you right-click a .txt file and select this command, the file will be opened in the TextEdit application.

Parallels Desktop also allows you to show the files and folders, located in the virtual machine shared folders, in Finder. It may become useful if you want to perform various actions on the object, for example, to apply color to it. To display a file or folder in Finder, right-click it and choose Show in Finder from the context menu.