How to access shared folder in Virtual Box

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Published on 2012-07-09T22:45:16Z Indexed on 2012/07/10 9:22 UTC
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I followed the steps for sharing folders between windows 7 and Ubuntu in virtual box. but the folder appear with X sign and give me the following message when open it "the folder conent could not be displayed"

and when choose "shared folder" from "Device" menu the following is written below "on the system page , you have asigned more than 50% of your computer's memory (2.93) to the virtual machine ...

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