Parallels Parallels For Mac Shared Folder

Guest blog by Manoj Kumar Suresh, Parallels Support Team

Parallels Desktop 11 and Parallels Desktop Pro are here and all of us are glad that both versions have many exciting new features—especially features like advanced networking tools, support for development and design, test tools like Docker, Jenkins, and Chef, and much more.

Open Windows virtual machine's configuration Options Sharing click on Custom Folders. Click on '+' in the opened window, then go to the path MacintoshHD Users Shared click Open to add the folder. Shared folder will be added to User-defined macOS folders list, click OK to apply.
Now if you decide to activate Windows in Parallels, you should be able to use files between Windows and OS X on the same desktop if you choose the Convergence mode of Parallels. To use Parallels, you have to have OS X running and then start Parallels. To use Windows there, you will have to import Windows into Parallels when you install Parallels.

Parallels Desktop® for Mac is the fastest, easiest, and most powerful application for running Windows® on a Mac®—without rebooting. Brought to you by the world-class developers of the #1-rated Mac virtualization software. Note: It is not recommended that existing Parallels Desktop® for Mac users move to Parallels Desktop App Store Edition.

But let’s look at a feature which was already in Parallels Desktop 10 but was tuned to become even better in version 11. Let’s talk about sharing options in Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac.

We’ve already discussed these features in the past in my colleague’s blog post, but I have some updated information I wanted to share with you for Parallels Desktop 11.

First, please make sure that:

Parallels Tools is installed in your virtual machine.
The Isolate virtual machine from Mac option is disabled in Security pane of your VM’s configuration window.

Since there are lots of options when it comes to sharing, let’s look at each one of them in detail.

All three categories of sharing are listed under the Options pane of your VM’s configuration.

Sharing

This is the most frequently used sharing function in Parallels Desktop 11. As you can see, the different types of data can be shared across the Mac and your VM (both ways).

Shared Folders

There are three options available while you’re sharing your Mac folders with your VM. You have the option to share only your Mac home folder on your VM, or the whole drive. The third option is to completely turn off sharing. You also have the option to add up any particular folder.

Shared Profile

This feature is more synchronization. Once this feature is turned on, the user profiles between your Mac and your VM will be the same on the Mac side as well as the VM. This includes your downloads, documents and most importantly, your Desktop.

For me, having the same desktop icons matters a lot, as many of us don’t want things to be different while switching. But if you don’t want to sync any one of them and leave certain folders separate, like a different downloads folder on your Mac and your Windows but share everything else, you can manually select which folders should be synchronized. (Even the Trash and the Recycle Bin!)

Shared Cloud

So up until now, we’ve spoken about locally stored data. When it comes to online data such as your iCloud, Dropbox, etc., we do have a direct selection of your favorite online storages.

Smartmount

With this option you can set Parallels Desktop to automatically mount storage devices and volumes to Windows. That way, you can access the contents from both Mac OS X and Windows.

Applications (Applications Sharing)

Personally, I adore this feature. It actually lets you share applications between Mac and Windows! That means that if you need to open a Microsoft Word document and you have installed Microsoft Office on your VM, if you have the document downloaded to the Mac side, all you have to do is just double click it to open. The VM will start automatically and open the document. This feature is even better when I use it in Coherence mode.

Web & Email (Web Preference Sharing)

When it comes to personal data sharing, all of us like our own preferences. Some of us want Mac mail to open attachments in Safari while others want to open the links from anywhere only in Internet Explorer. You can use your default browsers as usual or you can use all your mail and/or your browser to open your links either on the Mac or on the VM as per your choice.

There you go! As you can see, you can share almost anything you could imagine between two worlds with Parallels Desktop. Have more questions about sharing? Talk to Parallels Support on Twitter!

There are 14 other file types using
the PSF file extension!

.psf - MicroStation Plot specification file

.psf - ArcSoft PhotoStudio file image format

.psf - Insight II X-PLOR molecular structure

.psf - Adobe Photoshop proof setup data

.psf - Eclipse project set

.psf - HP-UX Software Distributor product specification file

.psf - Sony Playstation sound format

.psf - Sony Playstation Portable metadata file

.psf - PowerArchiver skin

.psf - Windows Server Update Services patch storage file

.psf - AutoCAD PostScript patterns

.psf - PID script

.psf - SPI WebInspect Toolkit proxy output

.psf - SimCity audio data

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PSF file extension- Parallels shared folders

What is psf file? How to open psf files?

File type specification:

The psf file extension is also used for files that represent shared folders settings in Parallels Desktop virtualization software.

Parallels Desktop allows users to share folders between the Mac OS X (macOS) and Windows file systems, so Mac files can be easily opened from Windows programs and Windows files from Mac applications.

The default software associated to open psf file:

Company or developer:
Parallels Holdings Ltd.

Parallels Desktop for Mac is popular virtualization software used to run Microsoft Windows and other operating systems on Mac computers running Mac OS X. It is able to run virtualized operating systems very fast with full 3D acceleration support and without lost Mac performance.

Help how to open:

Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.

Find Shared Folders Mac

How to convert:

Probably cannot be converted to anything else.

List of recommended software applications associated to the .psf file extension

Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open psf file, edit psf file, convert psf file, view psf file, play psf file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

Settings file type for software that use psf file - Parallels shared folders