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by powelln

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I have a user that has a 47 meg profile and it is causing a problem when he logs in and his profile is downloaded from the server, I have tried to delete this profile but the server keeps reconstructing it the same size as before when I access his profile folder to delete some of the files inside the files are deleted but the folder stills shows 47 megs in size, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong

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by dao251

1) The profile has two instances: one copy on the server and a local copy. So you have to delete at both.

2) If the user logs from more than one workstation -- there are third, fourth etc. copies of his/her profile. So you have to delete them aswell

3) In order to prevent profile grow -- check which folders you really need roaming (i.e. IE temp files -- do you really need that to roam???. You can configure IE to use local disk only for temp files.)

by zerwasma

1. Remove all copies of his profile on local machines that he uses.

2. On his profile on the servers (PDC and BDC) remove garbage.

3. Map a drive and point word, exchange,IE,etc to that location. Not to Profiles.

4. log in as that user.

by mcarswell

Answers 1 and 2 are correct.
to add on to that You may want to implament a policy that has been added with service pack 4 -- it allows you to limit the size of a users profile. when the size of the profile is larger that n the allowed size it will let the users know. You can allso Exclude Directories from with in the roming profile such as Hisorty folders, cookies and internet temp directory.

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