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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guestadd-gc-file-manager-using">
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| 4 | <title>Transferring Files</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>To use the Guest Control File Manager to transfer files, follow these steps. </p>
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| 8 | <ol>
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| 9 | <li>Ensure you have the username and password for an account on the guest system, with appropriate permissions on
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| 10 | the files you need to access.</li>
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| 11 | <li>
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| 12 | <p>Open the Guest Control File Manager. Do either of the following: </p>
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| 13 | <ul>
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| 14 | <li>
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| 15 | <p>
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| 16 | In the guest VM, select
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| 17 | <b outputclass="bold">Machine</b>,
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| 18 | <b outputclass="bold">File Manager</b>.
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| 19 | </p>
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| 20 | </li>
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| 21 | <li>
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| 22 | <p> In <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>, click the machine name. Click
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| 23 | <b outputclass="bold">File Manager</b> in the machine tools menu for the VM. </p>
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| 24 | </li>
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| 25 | </ul>
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| 26 | <p>The <b>Host File System</b> pane shows the files on the host system. </p>
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| 27 | </li>
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| 28 | <li>
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| 29 | <p>In the <b>Guest File System</b> pane, enter the <b>User Name</b> and <b>Password</b> for the user you want to
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| 30 | log in as. </p>
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| 31 | <p>Click <b outputclass="bold">Open Session</b>. </p>
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| 32 | <p>The VM file system appears in the <b>Guest File System</b> pane. </p>
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| 33 | </li>
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| 34 | <li>
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| 35 | <p>To transfer from the VM to the host, select the file(s) and click <b>Copy From Guest to Host</b>. </p>
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| 36 | <p>To transfer from the host to the VM, select the file(s) and click <b>Copy From Host to Guest</b>.</p>
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| 37 | </li>
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| 38 | <li>Check the progress of the transfer in the <b>Operations</b> pane.</li>
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| 39 | <li>
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| 40 | <p>Click <b outputclass="bold">Close</b> to end the guest session and the Guest Control File Manager. </p>
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| 41 | </li>
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| 42 | </ol>
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| 43 | </body>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | </topic>
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