Windows not viewing files that are made from linux

Question

I have vagrant up. Created a centosVM with it. I have shared folders activated so I can share files and folders between my local machine and VM. Problem is that it is one way. My VM and local machine (windows 7) can view the folders and files in the shared folder but if I create a file from the VM, it does not get displayed onto the shared folder in windows and whenever I restart the VM (by vagrant destroy or vagrant reload) then the files that I created from the VM, gets deleted. This is my vagrantfile:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.require_version ">= 1.4.3"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  if ENV["KONG_PATH"]
    source = ENV["KONG_PATH"]
  else
    source = "./"
  end

  if ENV['KONG_VB_MEM']
    memory = ENV["KONG_VB_MEM"]
  else
    memory = 2048
  end

  if ENV["KONG_VERSION"]
    version = ENV["KONG_VERSION"]
  else
    version = "0.7.0"
  end

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
   vb.name = "vagrant_kongDEBUG"
   vb.memory = memory
  end
config.vm.box = "centos/7"
      config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/tmp", type: "rsync"

  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 8000, host: 8000
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 8001, host: 8001
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 8443, host: 8443

  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "cd /tmp"
  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "ls -l"
  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provision.sh", :args => version
end

Answer 1

You're using rsync mechanism for your shared folder and it implies

The rsync synced folder does a one-time one-way sync from the machine running to the machine being started by Vagrant.

You can force the refresh of a shared folder :

The rsync and rsync-auto commands can be used to force a resync and to automatically resync when changes occur in the filesystem. Without running these commands, Vagrant only syncs the folders on vagrant up or vagrant reload.

so just run a vagrant rsync when you need to refresh the content of your shared folder or use the vagrant rsync-auto