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Drag and Drop to Tails OS ate my file
Posted: 27. Oct 2017, 18:07
by TheCharlatan
Using drag and drop I tried copying an executable to Tails running on VirtualBox, but it deleted the file. Is there a way to restore it? I am running VirtualBox version 5.0.40 on Ubuntu.
Re: Drag and Drop to Tails OS ate my file
Posted: 27. Oct 2017, 18:15
by socratis
I've never, ever heard of drag and drop deleting something from the host. Never. Are you absolutely sure that you didn't do something else?
You didn't mention your host (and its complete version) or your guest's complete version. Also, what's the output of the command "VBoxManage -version"?
Re: Drag and Drop to Tails OS ate my file
Posted: 27. Oct 2017, 18:20
by TheCharlatan
The version is 5.0.40_Ubuntur115130. The host system is Ubuntu Xenial 16.04
Re: Drag and Drop to Tails OS ate my file
Posted: 27. Oct 2017, 18:22
by TheCharlatan
Could be a result of either guest or host being tight on memory?
Re: Drag and Drop to Tails OS ate my file
Posted: 27. Oct 2017, 18:36
by TheCharlatan
It ended up in my VirtualBox VMs folder, still weird behaviour. Sorry for the silly thread.
Re: Drag and Drop to Tails OS ate my file
Posted: 27. Oct 2017, 18:38
by socratis
TheCharlatan wrote:5.0.40_Ubuntu r115130
It looks like you're using Ubuntu's forked version of VirtualBox. You can either ask in their forums for help, or completely remove/uninstall/delete/purge their version and install the official version from the Downloads section of VirtualBox (
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads).
TheCharlatan wrote:Could be a result of either guest or host being tight on memory?
No.
TheCharlatan wrote:It ended up in my VirtualBox VMs folder, still weird behaviour.
That's indeed weird. Maybe you dropped it mistakenly there. But as I said, this is the Ubuntu fork, so I couldn't know possibly what they're doing...