If a user is traveling and they delete files from their desktop or my documents, when they come back to the office and login to the server the server copies those files they deleted right back to their system. Is there anyway to stop it from doing this?

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Scott

Have they tried deleting them while they are connect in the office?

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ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland
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"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:OG66Dm$nEHA.3564@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
If a user is traveling and they delete files from their desktop or my documents, when they come back to the office and login to the server the server copies those files they deleted right back to their system. Is there anyway to stop it from doing this?

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Scott

not an option even if that worked for these two (tried telling them that already, they said "hell no, we have to be able to do this stuff offline"...But they said on a few occasions it has done it even when stuff was changed online, but I think that was them trying to convince me of how much of a problem this is and thus not accurate)...They travel more than they are in the office so the majority of the time they spend on their systems is offline. I just in fact got a call about it again today from the CEO of our sister company complaining that he just lost an entire weekends work in one word document because he did all the work on it offline and when he logged back in at the office the server copied down an old version of the file erasing all the work he did.

I was thinking, is there a way to set the profile to only copy to the server from the notebook and never from the server to the notebook?

Just FYI, they do not get any profile error messages on startup or shutdown when they are connected to the network...Of course though they do get the usual messages when offline.

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"Mark-Allen Perry" <mark-allen@mvps_dot_org> wrote in message news:%23G4O7lCoEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Have they tried deleting them while they are connect in the office?

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And always try the MS KB first before posting.
The answer is probably already posted.
MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;KBHOWTO
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Mark-Allen Perry
ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland
mark-allen_AT_mvps_DOT_org

"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:OG66Dm$nEHA.3564@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
If a user is traveling and they delete files from their desktop or my documents, when they come back to the office and login to the server the server copies those files they deleted right back to their system. Is there anyway to stop it from doing this?

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Scott

Check: http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Art...337/25337.html

Could you have them set the updating to 'manual'?

And how about them see in the viewer the files they've changed really has the flag set.

Finally, see if you can visually check the file date/time stamps before they sync. Maybe they can do this by calling you and saying, "Ok, I'm ready to sync, so what is the date of this doc, etc."

Here's another link: http://www.google.ch/search?hl=en&ie...les+copy&meta=

Hope this help a bit.

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And always try the MS KB first before posting.
The answer is probably already posted.
MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;KBHOWTO
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Mark-Allen Perry
ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland
mark-allen_AT_mvps_DOT_org

"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%236%230DHqoEHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
not an option even if that worked for these two (tried telling them that already, they said "hell no, we have to be able to do this stuff offline"...But they said on a few occasions it has done it even when stuff was changed online, but I think that was them trying to convince me of how much of a problem this is and thus not accurate)...They travel more than they are in the office so the majority of the time they spend on their systems is offline. I just in fact got a call about it again today from the CEO of our sister company complaining that he just lost an entire weekends work in one word document because he did all the work on it offline and when he logged back in at the office the server copied down an old version of the file erasing all the work he did.

I was thinking, is there a way to set the profile to only copy to the server from the notebook and never from the server to the notebook?

Just FYI, they do not get any profile error messages on startup or shutdown when they are connected to the network...Of course though they do get the usual messages when offline.

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Scott
"Mark-Allen Perry" <mark-allen@mvps_dot_org> wrote in message news:%23G4O7lCoEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Have they tried deleting them while they are connect in the office?

--
And always try the MS KB first before posting.
The answer is probably already posted.
MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;KBHOWTO
----
Mark-Allen Perry
ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland
mark-allen_AT_mvps_DOT_org

"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:OG66Dm$nEHA.3564@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
If a user is traveling and they delete files from their desktop or my documents, when they come back to the office and login to the server the server copies those files they deleted right back to their system. Is there anyway to stop it from doing this?

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Scott

This is whats happening, except these users never use any computer but their own:

Why do files, folders, and shortcuts sometimes reappear on the profile after being deleted?
After deleting files, folders, and shortcuts on the profile, they reappear again—sometimes weeks later.

There are two causes for this. One, the user was still logged in when the files were deleted from the server-based version of the profile on s-lsa-prof. Hence, when the user later logged off the forgotten machine (or they were logged off by someone else), the locally cached version of the profile replaced (wrote over the) the server-based version of the profile. The remedy is to make sure the user is logged off all computers Two, the user works on different machines, and one of the locally cached versions of the profiles wrote back deleted files, etc. to the server-based version of the profile when they logged into this computer.


Explanation: The locally cached profile remains in tact on all machines the user has ever logged into. The server-based version of the profile will generally replace the local cached version of the profile if the file names are the same. If a file, folder, or shortcut exists on the locallly cached version of the profile, but not on the server-based version, then the local and server-based profiles will be merged. Once deleted items will reappear as mysterious phantoms. The remedy is to remove all locally cached versions of the user’s profile from all machines. This can be done manually or automated with the “delprof” command.



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Scott
"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23kAiT9qoEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
I'm not using offline files functions. In AD I'm setting the users profile path to a central file server share (attached pic to show).

All 75 users are setup this way and have been for well over a year, possibly two. The only users that have this problem are laptop users as they are the only ones ever working offline of course. It's worked well up until a few months ago when I started getting complaints about this problem from the laptop folks. It was right around the same time we upgraded the domain controllers from Windows2000 to Windows2003 that I started noticing regular complaints, before that I was getting them but it was rare. Now I get that complaint all the time.

Thanks,

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Scott
"Mark-Allen Perry" <mark-allen@mvps_dot_org> wrote in message news:O6kzOtqoEHA.3396@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
Check: http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Art...337/25337.html

Could you have them set the updating to 'manual'?

And how about them see in the viewer the files they've changed really has the flag set.

Finally, see if you can visually check the file date/time stamps before they sync. Maybe they can do this by calling you and saying, "Ok, I'm ready to sync, so what is the date of this doc, etc."

Here's another link: http://www.google.ch/search?hl=en&ie...les+copy&meta=

Hope this help a bit.

--
And always try the MS KB first before posting.
The answer is probably already posted.
MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;KBHOWTO
----
Mark-Allen Perry
ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland
mark-allen_AT_mvps_DOT_org

"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%236%230DHqoEHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
not an option even if that worked for these two (tried telling them that already, they said "hell no, we have to be able to do this stuff offline"...But they said on a few occasions it has done it even when stuff was changed online, but I think that was them trying to convince me of how much of a problem this is and thus not accurate)...They travel more than they are in the office so the majority of the time they spend on their systems is offline. I just in fact got a call about it again today from the CEO of our sister company complaining that he just lost an entire weekends work in one word document because he did all the work on it offline and when he logged back in at the office the server copied down an old version of the file erasing all the work he did.

I was thinking, is there a way to set the profile to only copy to the server from the notebook and never from the server to the notebook?

Just FYI, they do not get any profile error messages on startup or shutdown when they are connected to the network...Of course though they do get the usual messages when offline.

--
Scott
"Mark-Allen Perry" <mark-allen@mvps_dot_org> wrote in message news:%23G4O7lCoEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Have they tried deleting them while they are connect in the office?

--
And always try the MS KB first before posting.
The answer is probably already posted.
MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;KBHOWTO
----
Mark-Allen Perry
ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland
mark-allen_AT_mvps_DOT_org

"Scott McDonald" <Sdgmcdon@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:OG66Dm$nEHA.3564@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
If a user is traveling and they delete files from their desktop or my documents, when they come back to the office and login to the server the server copies those files they deleted right back to their system. Is there anyway to stop it from doing this?

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Scott