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by greg.gotcher

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I have a Win 2000 domain. We are using Terminal Server and have redirected the users files to a different drive. Recently my users have been deleting files only to have them reappear the next time that they log on. Not only deleting but moving a file to a different folder causes the file to be in two places the next time they log on (the original folder and the folder that it was moved to). Any ideas on how this can be fixed would be greatly appreciated.

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by jeff adams

Just a WAG - are profiles cached locally and do the users have roaming profiles in which the files in question are located? This was a documented issue in NT 4.0 TS

Files and Folders Reappear After Deletion with Roaming Profiles (Q236073)
Afteryou delete files or folders of a user's roaming profile, the files and folders reappear.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q236073

Files and Folders Reappear After Deletion in a Cached Profile (Q283902)
Files and folders may reappear after being deleted in a cached profile.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q283902

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-Jeff

by greg.gotcher

I found the problem, I just don't know how to fix it. Under user profile in Active Directory Users and computers I assigned each person a Terminal Services Profile (that is all the users have access to is TS) User profile is: \\Spieg4\files\%username% and Connect Z: to \\Spieg4\files\%username%. The files are deleted here, however they remain in C:\Documents and Settings\%username%. When you log off the are written back to \\Spieg4\files\%username% and then the cached copy is deleted from the server. Please help.

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