Share iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive Folders with Windows
If you're using iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive cloud storage in OS X, you can easily share their OS X folders with Windows. Once sharing is enabled, you can upload, download, and sync files from any of these services from within Windows without duplicating any of their files on your hard disk.
Notes:
1. This functionality is also available for Linux virtual machines.
2. To be able to use this functionality,
Parallels Tools
must be installed.
To share OS X iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive folders with Windows, do the following:
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If you haven't already, set up iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive in OS X.
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Start Windows
.
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Do one of the following:
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Click the Parallels icon
in the menu bar and choose
Configure.
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If the Parallels Desktop menu bar is visible at the top of the screen, choose
Actions
>
Configure
.
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Click
Options
and select
Sharing
.
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Select
Share iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive
.
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Log in to Windows and open
Computer
. Folders for iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive are available in the
Favorites
section. You can use them to upload and download files to and from the cloud.
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