Mark,
One more thing from my VMware support experience that I did think was a good piece of advice given. One of my shared folders that I was pointing to was a Dropbox folder. The support technician advised that it may be a good idea to not use that as one of my shared folders. I tend to agree with that advice and did in fact remove/exclude that folder from my shared folder list. Sorry to share this in pieces, but my memory is not what it used to be. : )
Tony