The date and time was 12/11/2008 7:44 AM, and on a whim, tmpotvin
pounded out on the keyboard:
>
> "Terry R." wrote:
>
>> The date and time was 12/11/2008 6:32 AM, and on a whim, tmpotvin
>> pounded out on the keyboard:
>>
>>> Good Morning,
>>>
>>> I have a user who manually set up their My Documents to be redirected to a
>>> server. It was then working fine, but then they decided to switch it back
>>> locally. After doing so, they noticed that their actual user folder that was
>>> on the server is now deleted.
>>>
>>> The owner of the folder is an Administrator account and not the actual user
>>> so I'm not sure how the user could have deleted this.
>>>
>>> Is this a feature of Folder Redirection if it's setup manually? Is it
>>> supposed to completely remove the root share if it's moved back to their
>>> local system?
>>>
>>> If someone can please let me know, that would be really great!!
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>> Hi tmp,
>>
>> Was the user using Offline Files to sync between the two? If it was
>> turned off before a sync occurred, data could be lost.
>>
>> But just changing MD back to the default doesn't delete the old
>> location, it just moves the data back locally. I set up users this way
>> all the time and I've never had their user folder deleted. And on one
>> network we've been setting up the Symantec DLO agent for backup, so
>> we've been moving laptop users My Documents back locally instead of
>> relying on the buggy Offline Files. I've changed a few dozen back with
>> no issues like that.
>>
>> Is it actually a server running NT/W2K/W2K3 or just a computer set up to
>> store files?
>>
>> --
>> Terry R.
>>
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> Hi Terry,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Yes, the user would have been using Offline Files. He did mention that all
> of the data was back on the C drive, but that his share was gone. It was
> \\<server>\users$\<userid>, but now <userid> has disappeared. Since there's
> a drive being mapped directly to that share, it's not working anymore. I
> know that the user isn't the full owner of the folder so I found it weird
> that it was deleted.
>
> There were a few reasons for them using Redirection/Offline Files , and the
> main one was that if a spare needs to be given or they need to use a
> different system, they can just access files directly on the server instead
> of doing a restore of a backup file each time.
>
> Please let me know if there's anything else that can maybe explain why this
> happened.
>
> Thanks!
If the user has all rights, they don't need to be the owner to remove
the folder. I think the user inadvertently removed the folder after the
move.
Offline Files is okay for users that don't have a lot of data. But it's
too time consuming otherwise, and not reliable enough IMO.
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