use Ubuntu at virtual box based on windows 7 cannot edit text - windows-7

I have a problem that
1. my laptop is X86 win7 & install a virtual box.
2. Based on virtual box, I installed a Ubuntu.
Now I share a folder between win7 & Ubuntu.
And edit a bash file on windows by, ex UltraEdit.
After then, when I run the bash on Ubuntu.
It said:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘dvbpsi\r’: Protocol error
cp: cannot stat 'src/table/.h': No such file or directory*
It seems that \r is wrong.
Instead, if I tried to store in virtual box, it shows the wrong msg below:
It seems that I CANNOT store anything from virtual OS to a shared folder.
Is there a smart way to resolve it?
Thanks in advance!!

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The line terminator type is indicated for active file in status bar at bottom of UltraEdit main window.
The conversion between the various line terminator types can be done at any time in UltraEdit using for example the DOS to UNIX conversion command or on using Line terminator option in Save As dialog.
The default line ending type for new files can be also configured in configuration at
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I suggest following configuration settings for using UltraEdit mainly for editing Windows text files and only sometimes for Unix shell scripts:
Default file type for new files ... DOS
Unix/Mac file detection/conversion ... Automatically convert to DOS format
Only recognize DOS terminated lines (CR/LF) as new lines for editing ... not checked
Save file as input format (Unix/Mac/DOS) ... checked
Status bar shows original line terminator format (on disk) ... checked
So creating/editing shell scripts on Windows with UNIX type of line termination is easy using UltraEdit on Windows being also available for Linux and Mac.

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