Using the same folders for OS and Win7

[custom90gt]

So I bought my girlfriend a 2012 MBP 13" for her birthday and I'm a total OS noob. I put win7 on it via bootcamp, and moved all her old files from her old laptop into their respective places in OS X. My question is, how can I set the win7 documents/music/picture location to the OS X partition? When I tried it, it says that I do not have permissions. I tried using get info in OS X to set permissions to everything for everyone, but that didn't work. Any ideas for me?

[saturnotaku]

So I bought my girlfriend a 2012 MBP 13" for her birthday and I'm a total OS noob. I put win7 on it via bootcamp, and moved all her old files from her old laptop into their respective places in OS X. My question is, how can I set the win7 documents/music/picture location to the OS X partition? When I tried it, it says that I do not have permissions. I tried using get info in OS X to set permissions to everything for everyone, but that didn't work. Any ideas for me?

It won't work as Windows 7 can't write to an HFS (OS X format) drive without 3rd-party software. Even then, those programs are not reliable. The easiest thing to do would be to put everything onto an external drive formatted as exFAT, as this is a system that both Windows and Mac OS can read from and write to. Is there any particular reason why Boot Camp is needed? If it's for using something like MS Office, it would run just fine in a Windows virtual machine created with either Parallels or VMWare Fusion.

[custom90gt]

It won't work as Windows 7 can't write to an HFS (OS X format) drive without 3rd-party software. Even then, those programs are not reliable. The easiest thing to do would be to put everything onto an external drive formatted as exFAT, as this is a system that both Windows and Mac OS can read from and write to. Is there any particular reason why Boot Camp is needed? If it's for using something like MS Office, it would run just fine in a Windows virtual machine created with either Parallels or VMWare Fusion.

I didn't want to run a VM because I'm not a fan of how slow they run. I figured bootcamp would be good for her to do anything she needs to do in windows. I guess I should have created a 3rd partition as just a data/store directory.

[Karamazovmm]

I didn't want to run a VM because I'm not a fan of how slow they run. I figured bootcamp would be good for her to do anything she needs to do in windows. I guess I should have created a 3rd partition as just a data/store directory.

that works pretty well. I had divided my SSD in 3 parts before, OSX, win, and exFAT for the data, redirected everything from docs to pics to there and it worked wonders

[doh123]

So I bought my girlfriend a 2012 MBP 13" for her birthday and I'm a total OS noob. I put win7 on it via bootcamp, and moved all her old files from her old laptop into their respective places in OS X. My question is, how can I set the win7 documents/music/picture location to the OS X partition? When I tried it, it says that I do not have permissions. I tried using get info in OS X to set permissions to everything for everyone, but that didn't work. Any ideas for me?

you need to have a copy on both partitions, and not try to share them between 2 OSes. YOu can add a 3rd partition in there formatted exFAT and keep data stored there that both drives can use, but it won't be "My Documents" etc...

Also... if you set your home permissions to read/write for everyone instead of just your user like its supposed to be... I'd change that back if I were you, as that is VERY insecure and can lead to problems, and has nothing to do with the problem you were having anyways.

[Karamazovmm]

you need to have a copy on both partitions, and not try to share them between 2 OSes. YOu can add a 3rd partition in there formatted exFAT and keep data stored there that both drives can use, but it won't be "My Documents" etc...

Also... if you set your home permissions to read/write for everyone instead of just your user like its supposed to be... I'd change that back if I were you, as that is VERY insecure and can lead to problems, and has nothing to do with the problem you were having anyways.

you can direct the windows libraries to the folder in question, and name my docs, my music and so forth

[xfiregrunt]

I have a 2011 i7 second gen MBP and Parallels works flawlessly. I don't really have any slow down issues. I am however, not running any games on it.

[doh123]

yep, Parallels is super fast as long as you aren't comparing it in graphics intensive performance, but for running something simple like MS Office, you can't really tell its a VM. Years ago that was never the case and VMs were always a lot slower. CPU intensive things are much faster now as long as you have a CPU that supports virtualization so the virtual machine has direct access to the CPU. It would be nice if AMD, nvidia, and Intel would put in virtualization tech in GPUs for VMs to take advantage of.

[Thors.Hammer]

Another approach to this is to copy all of your files to the Mac. Fusion allows you to share those files and folders with a VM, and have full write access.

[dmk2]

Here's another vote for using a VM. I use Parallels and don't notice a speed difference vs. native except in games. And it's way more convenient.