Recycler folder in My Documents (redirected folder)

[Guest]

Unsure if this should be in this group (it seemed the best fit), so sorry if
not.

We have users My Documents folders redirected via a GPO to a common share on
a Windows 2000 SP4 Server, which also acts as a DC. The partition these
folders reside on is NTFS. Each of the users folders have a recycler folder
(path would be \\servername\share\users\<username>\recycler\<SID of recycle
bin>), which although is empty when you browse via explorer, is not empty
when you check it from a DOS prompt. By doing del *.* I can delete the files
in the folder, but on most folders permissions are set such that the domain
adminstrator cannot delete these files, which means I would have to reset
permissions on the files.

If you logon as admin to the server console, the recycle bin also appears
empty, although as this issue relates around user profiles this is not
surprising.

Can anyone suggest the easiest way to delete all these files from the
Recycler folder for each user, without manually going through 200+ folders,
changing permissions and deleting the files?

many thanks for any suggestions,

Craig.

 

[chriske911]

Badger explained on 14/06/2005 :

Unsure if this should be in this group (it seemed the best fit), so sorry if
not.

We have users My Documents folders redirected via a GPO to a common share on
a Windows 2000 SP4 Server, which also acts as a DC. The partition these
folders reside on is NTFS. Each of the users folders have a recycler folder
(path would be \\servername\share\users\<username>\recycler\<SID of recycle
bin>), which although is empty when you browse via explorer, is not empty
when you check it from a DOS prompt. By doing del *.* I can delete the files
in the folder, but on most folders permissions are set such that the domain
adminstrator cannot delete these files, which means I would have to reset
permissions on the files.

If you logon as admin to the server console, the recycle bin also appears
empty, although as this issue relates around user profiles this is not
surprising.

Can anyone suggest the easiest way to delete all these files from the
Recycler folder for each user, without manually going through 200+ folders,
changing permissions and deleting the files?

many thanks for any suggestions,

Craig.

why would you want to delete user files?
how can you decide what they still need and what they want to throw
away permanently?

there are people out there who depend on the recycle bin to keep files
stowed away for a while
that's the main purpose of the recycle bin

if there isn't yet, then you defintely need a policy witch states an
administrator has to stay away from the user's files
any user, any time, anyway

you'll get the short end if someone looses a file,
you will be held responsable every time
since you have the habbit of simply deleting files without the user's
approval

grtz

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply.

After further investigation, I have less of a clue as to what actually goes
into the recyler that I did at the start!! As this is not really an issue I
have time to deal with just now, I will just get around this another way
(don't worry I won't be deleting their data)!!!

thanks anyway.

 

[chriske911]

It happens that Badger formulated :

Thanks for the reply.

After further investigation, I have less of a clue as to what actually goes
into the recyler that I did at the start!! As this is not really an issue I
have time to deal with just now, I will just get around this another way
(don't worry I won't be deleting their data)!!!

thanks anyway.

I'm sorry for the sharp reply but I've seen the same thing happening
before
it's hard for someone to understand that an user uses the recycle bin
as a kind of archive
but it happens, so...

that said,
the size of the recycle bin is user dependant
it can be set on the workstation of the user

just try it

if you open the properties of the recycle bin you will see the local
drives
and the my documents tab, so....

if a user can set these properties then you could do the same via a
custom adm thru gpo

grtz