Stop moving or deleting files or folders

[James Reichner]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop users from moving or
deleting files or folders but still allowing them to create or modify files
in a specific folder?

Every once in a while I get a call from a user stating that a folder or file
is missing. 9 times out of 10 it has simply been move to another folder by
mistake. Is there anyway to stop a user from doing this? I would also like
to take delete permissions away but I don't want to inhibit the users from
doing their work.

Any ideas?

 

[Mark Zbikowski \(MSFT\)]

Deleting/renaming an object in the file system requires having delete
permission to EITHER the parent folder or to the object itself. To
prevent deletion/renaming, remove delete permission from both.

However, this may also prevent many applications from working
since their "safe save" mode involves writing to a temp file, deleting
the original, and then doing a rename from temp to original. Note
that the delete and rename would be prevented by the above.

You might be between a rock and a hard place on this one.

 

[James Reichner]

Thanks for your time, Mark! I figured it would be a difficult issue.