I have a data structure that I want to keep pinned in place regardless of whether users drag & drop files or attempt to move folders.
This is on Win2k server, an NTFS partition, with an organized, navigable datafolder-tree like:
.DirA
> SubA1
> SubA2
> SubA3
.DirB
> SubB1
> SubB2
> SubB3
.DirC
> SubC1
> SubC2
> SubC3
The SUE (stupid user error) I am facing is that data is “disappears” from network directories and users accuse the server of spontaneously moving their files. Thesaps on my network – pardon me, the esteemed colleagues on my network are left-click dragging folders and either don’t notice they did it (???) or they don’t understand that other people then can’t find the files.
When I go looking for the “missing” files, I generally find:
.DirA
> SubA1
>> DirB
>>> SubB1
>>> SubB2
>>> SubB3
> SubA2
> SubA3
.DirC
> SubC1
> SubC2
> SubC3
Despite my telling them multiple times, they have not picked up on the fact that clicking the Cancelbutton in the flying-folders dialog _does not_ undo the damage that has been done to the organization of the tree… Unfortunately, they must have write access to the folders in order to edit the files.
I have tried to at least anchor the directories with a single file that has permissions set to Deny, but if a user has write-access at the folder level, and drag-drops the folder somewhere it shouldn’t be, then, the file’s Deny permissions don’t matter. They are only checked if the user triesto open the file, not if it gets moved along with the folders the user has write-access to.
This is just something that annoys the heck out of me when it pops up, because the IS department gets blamed when people can’t find the files they worked on last week…