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I have a reproduceable problem reading some files from a shared drive, I get "corrupt data" (well, the file appears to be "damaged"). Copying the complete directory to a local drive of my VM, I can read these files w/o problems.

Any suggestions how to fix this?

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Are you sharing your host PC's folder using VirtualBox's inbuilt options? You could instead try sharing a folder in W7 (right-click the folder and click Sharing) and access the network share from your XP virtual machine. Network shares can be set to read-only mode which would protect your files from being edited/damaged by the virtual machine.

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Thanks George - I had indeed used the Shared Folders of VirtualBox, but when I mapped that path it fixed the probs! That has slightly damaged my trust into VB :( – MBaas Mar 22 '10 at 8:51
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