Drag & Drop fails from XP Guest to 7 Host

[over_clox]

I recently upgraded VirtualBox from 4.3.28 to 5.0.10 current build, and upgraded my Guest Additions accordingly. I'm running Windows 7 host and Windows XP guest. This is the first time I've bothered with Drag & Drop features and I'm not even sure if it was available in previous versions. The problem I'm having is that Drag & Drop works fine from host to guest, but fails with this error when trying to Drag & Drop from guest to host:

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Drag and drop error from guest (VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER).


Result Code: 
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component: 
GuestWrap
Interface: 
IGuest {13a11514-402e-022e-6180-c3944de3f9c8}

This seems to fail on the guest side from within the additions, but the error message is generated from the host side, just from dragging the file outside the bounds of the window, before even releasing the mouse button. Afterwards it just hangs up at "Dropping Data" and I have to just close this window. After all this, I am left with a null file of the name of the dragged file in my host's "%TEMP%\VirtualBox Dropped Files\{DateTimeSerial}" folder. Attempting to drag multiple files results in only one null file being left in the temp folder, the first one in the list to copy going by the specific file I started the drag from.

By the way, Drag & Drop works just fine both ways on the same host with an Ubuntu 10.04 guest with updated additions.

For now and maybe a while to come, my current solution is just to disable Drag & Drop altogether and use my Dropbox in the guest instead.

[mpack]

Dropbox in the guest? The traditional solution would be a shared folder.

I won't comment on drag and drop since I never use it, and in any case the feature isn't supported on my host.

[over_clox]

Yeah, I know about the Shared Folders option too, and I do use it for read-only access to my entertainment media, but I only started recently using that. My programming projects are kind of designed around Dropbox for a rapid build and release to beta testers solution, and I've managed to get my entire compile time, setup package build, and upload to Dropbox all down to a 10-15 second turnover time by a single compile script, so I've sort of linked one of my VM's to Dropbox as a clean testing, coding, compiling, building, remote demonstration and release environment.

Aside from that, the Shared Folders option DOES sound like a good general daily personal solution, but I've got bigger things going on here that need the flexibility.

Matter of fact, my project is kind of why I disappeared for 7 years, I've been working on all new technologies here that needed my focus, plus life was calling!

[Ted_E.]

I've had a lot of problems with the drag and drop with files between my Mac host and Windows 10 guest, but I did come up with a pretty simple work around for files, since I don't have any problems with text.

I set went into the file sharing setting of the virtual machine and created a shared file on the Mac side called Windows 10 Machine. Then I just put an alias on the desktop of the virtual machine. I also created an alias to the shared folder on the Mac side desktop. Now I can drop all the files I want into that folder from either side and open them on the other with no problems.

Not really a solution to the drag and drop, but a simple work-around. Hope it helps somebody.

[over_clox]

Yeah, since I posted this topic I've kinda regrouped on my structure and have started making more use of the Shared Folders option myself. This bug still doesn't seem to have been resolved but I've taken to the same sort of workarounds. Thank you for reading and commenting at least, maybe they'll get it fixed sometime. Strange it wouldn't work on a Windows Host/Guest but it would work fine on a Windows Host/Linux Guest... IDK. Thanks again anyways.