Issues with Microsoft Remote Desktop: inconsistent directory redirection

Question

Hi,
I recently upgraded from OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) to Yosemite. I have issues redirecting directories from my MacBook Pro to the target Windows host. The odd thing is, redirection works for some directories and not for others.
I am running Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0.13. The version of Yosemite is 10.10.1 (14B25)
The directories I am trying to redirect are (in the order configured in MS RD):
/Users/Shared/Projects-Office/PRO-2014-07-ABC_Aabcd_Aabcde-Aabcdefghi          [Replaced the characters in the last directory for security purposes]
/scratch/xchange-buffer
/Volumes/MyPassportStudio/Files-MPS/PRO-ABC
Redirection works for #2 bot not for the others. This is the list of configuration items I have done:
All three directories have been shared identically using System Properties
File permissions for directory # 1 and its parent directories are:
  Start directory: /Users/Shared/Projects-Office/PRO-2014-07-ABC_Aabcd_Aabcde-Aabcdefghi
drwxrwsr-x 24 me  shared  816 Jan 12 12:27 /Users/Shared/Projects-Office/PRO-2014-07-ABC_Aabcd_Aabcde-Aabcdefghi
drwxrwxr-x 23 metoo  shared  782 Sep  9  2014 /Users/Shared/Projects-Office
drwxrwsr-x  18 root  shared  612 Dec 13 21:35 /Users/Shared
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  admin  340 Dec 15 12:08 /Users
File permissions for directory #2 and its parent directories are:
  Start directory: /scratch/xchange-buffer
drwx---r-x  74 me  shared  2516 Jan 12 12:26 /scratch/xchange-buffer
drwxr-sr-x  15 me  wheel  510 Jun 27  2014 /scratch
File permissions for directory # 3 and its parent directories are:
  Start directory: /Volumes/MyPassportStudio/Files-MPS/PRO-RSI
drwxr-xr-x@ 7 me  staff  238 Feb 19 15:42 /Volumes/MyPassportStudio/Files-MPS/PRO-RSI
drwxr-xr-x@ 17 me  staff  578 Dec 29 16:44 /Volumes/MyPassportStudio/Files-MPS
drwx------@ 30 me  staff  1088 Jan 30 08:18 /Volumes/MyPassportStudio
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root  admin  204 Mar 17 21:09 /Volumes
MS Remote Desktop runs with ID me
When attempting to access directory # 1 through RDP/Windows host, the following is shown in the system.log file (/var/log)
Mar 18 14:18:26 My-Host.local sandboxd[223] ([5154]): Microsoft Remote(5154) deny file-read-data /Users/Shared/Projects-Office/PRO-2014-07-ABC_Aabcd_Aabcde-Aabcdefghi
Any ideas as to why this behavior? Can sandboxd be configured to allow access to RDP to read specified directories?
Thank you.
Omar

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