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Hello,

when I upgraded to Virtual Box v2.2 I encountered problems with a program (MP3Tag) giving a write error on a write access to a Shared Folder. This error only occurs if it wants to write a new file and the file is rather big (around 100MB). I never had problems with smaller files (around 5MB). And altering the file in it's place (e.g. replace existing ID3 tags) also works with no problem.

By accident I found out that this seems to be related to the Guest Additions. When using Virtual Box v2.2.2 along with the Guest Additions of v2.1.4 the problem described above does not occur.

Now I have two questions:

1) Do you consider using VB v2.2.2 along with older Gust Additions as problematic?
2) Any idea how I could report/narrow down this problem?

I am using Windows XP SP3 as the Guest and Mac OS 10.5.6 as the Host.

Jo

I have seen several reports here that look similar to yours but none have a definite solution. I do know this was an issue on the older versions and it was supposed to have been fixed. Here are some of the problems http://www.google.com/search?q=copying+ ... ualbox.org

As for using the older GA with your newer version of VBox, it is not a recommended procedure, but if it works and you do not have problems it can be a temporary work around until you find the cause and repair it.

I would suggest that you post a bug report and see what the VBox dev's have to say about it. You will need to setup a new account there though, and don't forget to send a copy of your VBox log. Link to bugtracker is at the bottom of my post.

Thanks for your input! I found that a similar problem has already been posted to BugTracker: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3785

I added my findings hoping that the problem will be solved soon. Until then I will run VB v2.2.2 with GA v2.1.4 and hope that my data will not become corrupted...