Re: XPMode Question

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Jon and Paul,


The solution is very simple.


Keep in mind that, if your goal (as mine is) is to access the entire host
c: drive from XyWrite, you will have to access it through another drive
letter. In the VM, c:\ can only refer to the host's local drive. (You may
therefore need to change some c:\'s to some other letter in some of your
XyWrite setup files.)


In the example below, in XP mode, on Windows 7, we will permanently
access the entire host C:\ drive by assigning it to G:\ in the XPmode
guest.


1. Start XP from Win 7. In XP, go to My Computer. In the top menu bar,
select TOOLS, Map Network Drive.


In the drop down, you have to select the drive letter you will use to
access the host C:/ drive. In this example, we will use G:


In the 2nd dropdown, Folder, type in


\\TSCLIENT\C


and that's it.


When you run editor, it may take, at startup, a few seconds for 'g:' to
become available, but once it is available it will stay available.



I think that is it.


Certainly, whatever it is that I did to XP, it has been working with full
access to my host c:\ drive for two or three years, without
interruption.


At 18/06/2014 05:09, you wrote:




I guess I'm the big XP Mode
booster here, and have been using it smoothly for a long time. But all I
can say is that I feel your pain. I have never been able to get XP Mode
to see anything in the Windows 7 computer. It seems to be walled off by
itself.


I also, when I want to send off the finished documents via email, need to
export them to Windows 7. I do that by having another XY folder within
Windows 7, C:\XY. When I've finished writing in XY4 in XP Mode, this is
in my .kbd file under TABLE=CTRL for CTRL-C. It copies the file into the
Win7 C:\XY.

46=BXs,a,/,n,v, ,\,\,t,s,c,l,i,e,n,t,\,c,\,x,y,Q2


For my purposes, not having access to files on the Win7 computer from XY
is not a problem. XY4 runs in a window and my browser and other programs
run in Win7. I can clip text from XY4 outward and text from Win7 into
XY4. 


If you have files in Win7 that you regularly need available to XY, then
for a brute-force, space-wasting workaround, you could simply copy the
data folders you need from Win7 into the XP Mode desktop. Transfer in
that direction is easy.  


Then again, when I tried VPC and could enable sharing, it took
forever--minutes, not seconds--to transfer anything in or out of the
virtual machine. Sometimes it timed out before succeeding. I don't
remember how sharing worked in DOSBox, but it only allowed two open
windows in XY4. I haven't tried VMWare; perhaps that is workable.



If any of your XP Mode references does give you a way for XP Mode to view
the host computer, please pass it on.


Jon Pareles





 

Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:56:57 -0700

From: J R FOX 

Subject: XPMode Question


I set this up on a laptop (64-bit W7U) but did not manage to get Xy able
to see or access any data files.  I tried everything I could find in
Settings for the VM, or for the other component that has to be installed
prior to XPMode.  (VPC ?  That laptop is not at this location,
but I get back to where it is about once a week.)  Xy cannot see any
drives or directories, although I tried to designate some as being
Shared.