Can't copy a ".SVN" directory from VM to HOST trough directory share

[JLB]

Hi,

When I copy a directory containing a ".svn" subdirectory which is hidden (typically a Tortoise SVN managed project) from VM to Host trough the "shared directory" feature, the copying stops at the very first file of the .SVN subdir without any error, any alert, nothing. It stops.

Drag & drop or copy/paste behave identically.

I have the same problem too with the (hidden too) ".vs" subdir.

It seems that Virtual Box does not handle correctly directories beginning with a dot in a local share , even under Windows.

Physical and Virtual machine, the two ones run W10-64.

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The log for this shared directory is :

SharedFolders host service: Adding host mapping 00:00:04.453014 Host path 'C:\Users\xxxx\Projets', map name 'Projets', writable, automount=true, create_symlinks=false, missing=false

But no error is logged.

[JLB]

Any directory beginning with "." will crash a copy trough the directory sharing.

Windows guest, windows host.

[boxer01]

See #17626 with the same problems.

[boxer01]

Because of some other problems with shared folders I looked for other tickets here and found some other tickets for this issue. This one (#17067) looks really alike and this one (#16762) is exact the same problem. Both of them over a year old.

[JLB]

This bug is still active in VirtualBox 6.0 : impossible to copy files or dir beginning with a dot from guest to host, the 2 ones being Windows machines.

[bird]

Looks like the trouble isn't the leading dot but the hidden attribute on directories. The shared folders where ignoring requests to modify attributes on directories, which somehow upsets recent windows 10 releases (a bit uncertain which exactly, as I'm having some difficulties reproducing). And yes, I think this is a duplicate of #17626.