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by johnhiltz

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We are running Windows XP SP2 on all workstations. The servers are Windows 2003.

There is a network folder for each user named by their name. The inherited permissions on each folder is for Domain Users to have Write access so that they are able to edit and save other users files but not delete or move them. The owner user of the folder has full permissions.

However, when another user who is not the owner modifies and saves a file, it also generates an 8 hex character flat file. Only the folder owner can delete them because the other users do not have modify permission.

Is there a way to keep this file from getting generated?

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by jiminpa

This is a temp file generated when the file is open to allow for document recovery in the event of a crash. My advise would be to copy the document from the folder make the modifications and copy it back, kind of a PITA, unless someone knows of a different method.

by johnhiltz

yea, that is the obvious work around answer but not really a solution for what we are trying to accomplish. thanks anyway.

john

by thumbsup2

... there doesn't appear to be any other solution than the work around previously given. That's just the way MS Office works. It opens the temp file where ever the original document is located.

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