VirtualBox shared folders

This helped when i didn’t have access rights to the host folder (host OSX, guest Ubuntu Mate):

https://darrenma.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/you-do-not-have-the-permissions-necessary-to-view-the-contents-of-shared_folder/

Basically, type this in Linux (changing username to that of your user):

sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf username

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