I had the same problem. I downngraded my version to 6.0 (6.1 might work) but read this thread: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2313778#2313778
scroll down to the official answer.
The simplest maybe to downgrade back to 6.0.1 tools for now until this gets addressed in the next release of tools. Or as another user stated earlier in the thread, disable the sharing and enable the sharing feature (or manually from a terminal shell) remove and recreate the shared folder mount under /mnt/hgfs.