id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 14424 Shared folder seems to cache old file content for the guest after editing host files LigH "I have VirtualBox 5.0.0 running on a Windows 7 SP1 x64 host, with an Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Linux as guest. To exchange script files in development, I mounted a share manually to a shared folder (""sudo mount -t vboxsf {sharename} {targetname}"", because I did not know where to look for the auto-mounted share), where I copied files to in the hosting Windows, and copied files out of the share into a local directory in the guest Linux. I found that the script files contained some bugs, which I fixed using Windows tools I have more experience with, which reduced the size of some files (e.g. converting CRLF line breaks to LF only, and deleting some text content). Then I copied the files with the same name and location in the guest Linux out of the share and into the local directory again, overwriting the old versions of these files. So I thought. But I had to discover that the scripts still contained the buggy parts. And on top, the size was now reduced to the new file size, means, a part of the last script line was truncated now. The only reliable way to edit the files inside the guest Linux was to empty the files, save with 0 bytes, close, re-open (in gedit or similar fork), then copy the text in a Windows text editor in the host, and paste the text into the Linux text editor via shared clipboard in the guest." defect new shared folders VirtualBox 5.0.0 file corrupt share cached Linux Windows