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Since a few days I try to solve the following annoying shares problem when using vbox under a Windows XP host and an Ubuntu (8.04) guest: the renaming and/or the overwriting of files does not work in many cases.

gedit: cannot save a file (that lives in a shared directory) if a file with this name exists alreday.. Error message: "Could not save the file <file>"

nautilus: cannot copy/move a file from a non-share directory to share-directory where a file with this name exists alreday. Error message: "Error renaming temporary file: Text file busy"

However, the creation of new files and directories does work. Moreover, xemacs or gftp work properly.

I tried several variants in the fstab, but the symptoms are the same. The mount command (alternatively fstab) look as follows:
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000,rw user /mnt/windows/user
user /mnt/windows/user vboxsf uid=1000,gid=1000,rw 0 0

Thanks in advance for every hint!

It's a known problem with Gedit and Nautilus. Use other applications like Abiword and PCmanFM.

This is still a problem with Ubuntu 9.04.
Does anyone know which bug ID for gedit and Nautilus this has so I can check the status, vote to fix or anything else to get this fixed?

Arne

Bug ticket from where, VB or Gnome? You can find either of them using the search trick in the Forum Posting Guide. You just need a different site filter.