Question moving files? Easy one.

[Guest]

Everyone here at work is mapped to a drive on the server. A user was trying
to clean up some documents on this mapped drive (drive sits on 2k3 Server) by
moving them to her "My documents" folder. I pulled up Windows Explorer for
her and went to the mapped drive and simply drag and drop the files to her
"My Documents" folder. the file moved, but was also retained on the mapped
drive. I tried cut and paste, some files it worked, some it didn't.

Some of the documents were Word Templates, does this have anything to do
with it. Some again after cutting and pasting still remained where I cut them
from?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Vagabond Software]

Everyone here at work is mapped to a drive on the server. A user was trying
to clean up some documents on this mapped drive (drive sits on 2k3 Server) by
moving them to her "My documents" folder. I pulled up Windows Explorer for
her and went to the mapped drive and simply drag and drop the files to her
"My Documents" folder. the file moved, but was also retained on the mapped
drive. I tried cut and paste, some files it worked, some it didn't.

Some of the documents were Word Templates, does this have anything to do
with it. Some again after cutting and pasting still remained where I cut them
from?

Thanks for the help.

Check the Advanced Permissions for the files that would not "cut" from the folder. Who is the owner? It may be that only the owner of the document can cut-n-paste from a network share, rather than copy-n-paste.

carl

 

[DanS]

Everyone here at work is mapped to a drive on the server. A user was
trying to clean up some documents on this mapped drive (drive sits on
2k3 Server) by moving them to her "My documents" folder. I pulled up
Windows Explorer for her and went to the mapped drive and simply drag
and drop the files to her "My Documents" folder. the file moved, but
was also retained on the mapped drive. I tried cut and paste, some
files it worked, some it didn't.

Some of the documents were Word Templates, does this have anything to
do with it. Some again after cutting and pasting still remained where
I cut them from?

Thanks for the help.

on a drag-n-drop operation, if you drag from a folder on one drive to a
folder on another drive, it will copy. if it's from a folder to another
folder on the same drive, it will move the files.