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I'm running an Ubuntu guest on Windows 7, and there is something wrong with renaming folders in the shared part of the filesystem. My shared folders are mounted via fstab:

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urba      /mnt/urba      vboxsf  uid=b,gid=b 0 0
downtown  /mnt/downtown  vboxsf  uid=b,gid=b 0 0
backup    /mnt/backup    vboxsf  uid=b,gid=b 0 0

Here's what happens when I go into the shared folder "downtown" (which is the C: drive in Windows) and try to rename a folder:

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b@jungle:~/downtown/temp$ mkdir something 
b@jungle:~/downtown/temp$ cd something/
b@jungle:~/downtown/temp/something$ touch anything
b@jungle:~/downtown/temp/something$ ls -l
total 0
-rwxrwxrwx 1 b b 0 Aug 21 00:45 anything
b@jungle:~/downtown/temp/something$ cd ..
b@jungle:~/downtown/temp$ mv something/ something1
b@jungle:~/downtown/temp$ ls -l something1/
ls: cannot access something1/anything: No such file or directory
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? anything
b@jungle:~/downtown/temp$

I have another guest running Debian, and it has no problems renaming in the "downtown" share. Also, if I go into Windows Explorer and rename the directory, my Ubuntu guest can see the rename as if everything is fine:

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b@jungle:~/downtown/temp$ ls something1/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 b b 0 Aug 21 00:45 anything

Let me know if anyone has an idea about this. Thanks!

Byron

Fixed it! Apparently I installed the guest additions in the wrong way, because when I tried to uninstall them from the ISO at a terminal inside the guest, it complained that it didn't recognize the existing guest additions. Uninstalling worked--a subsequent run of the installer (also from the ISO at a guest terminal) didn't complain about any existing guest additions, and completed successfully. Now I can `mv` folders without any strange problems accessing the files in them

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