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I am currently using Ubuntu 19.04 and using VMware for virtualization.

In a virtual machine I am running Windows 7 and I installed VMware Tools on Windows 7. The problem is that I can copy anything from my Ubuntu host to Windows 7 guest, but I cannot copy things from my Windows 7 guest and paste to Ubuntu host.

FedKad
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    Not an answer to your question. But, did you consider using VirtualBox? It runs much more seamlessly. – FedKad Jun 01 '19 at 17:01
  • Thanks for your answer , I will install VirtualBox and test it – Afshin Jun 01 '19 at 17:22
  • You can use your previously created VMDK virtual disk files directly in VirtualBox also. – FedKad Jun 01 '19 at 17:52
  • Copying and pasting files from Windows run in VMware to Ubuntu works fine for me, and vice-versa. Are you pasting to a (sub)folder in your user account? – Paul Benson Jun 01 '19 at 18:41
  • @Paul Benson it worked fine for me too , until yesterday that I installed the new version of UBUNTU(19.04) , and after that I can only copy pasting from Ubuntu to vm , not the reverse , and I've tried sub folder and main folder both , none of them worked ! – Afshin Jun 01 '19 at 18:51
  • @FedonKadifeli it's funny , also with VirtualBox I can't copy past from real host to vm , I installed guest addition , but it didn't work , I think it's about ubuntu 19.04 , because every thing works fine on ubuntu 18.10 – Afshin Jun 01 '19 at 20:11
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    @Afshin I never tried before (in 18.10) to copy and paste files from/to guest to/from host or to drag and drop files. So, I cannot say whether it worked in previous versions of Ubuntu, but certainly it does not work in 19.04. Note: Ubuntu itself has some problems with DnD (See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1136203/drag-and-drop-functionality-no-longer-working-after-upgrade-to-19-04/1146765). Note also that my session is: XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome. However, copying and pasting text does work both ways. – FedKad Jun 02 '19 at 08:53
  • x11 is the output of echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE – Afshin Jun 02 '19 at 13:37

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