Category Archives: Parallels

Drag’n'Drop Problems with Parallels 4

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Since installing Snow Leopard, I can no longer Drag’n'Drop files from Windows to the hosting OS X environment, though the inverse works just fine. Is anyone else having this problem, because I’m not seeing much about it on the Parallel’s forums. I think the bug is real. Continue reading →

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Printing in Parallels

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Using Parallels virtualization, I got this pretty scary error message: pstopdffilter/pstocupsraster failed with err number -31000. I’m almost ashamed to tell you what the solution is to get past it. Continue reading →

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iChat Problems: Fixed

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Got Leopard? Find that iChat isn’t working? Do you run Parallels? Guess what, that may be it. What? You’re not running Parallels at the same time you iChat? Not relevant, Parallels has network services active even if the client isn’t. Here’s the workaround to get you chatting… Continue reading →

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Ubuntu and Parallels Rescue Broken XP

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

How I recovered a badly damaged XP box with severe Windows Update problems using Ubuntu and Parallels for OS X. Continue reading →

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