Re: Recycler folder in My Documents (redirected folder)
- From: Badger <Badger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:50:03 -0700
Thanks for the reply.
After further investigation, I have less of a clue as to what actually goes
into the recyler that I did at the start!! As this is not really an issue I
have time to deal with just now, I will just get around this another way
(don't worry I won't be deleting their data)!!!
thanks anyway.
"chriske911" wrote:
> Badger explained on 14/06/2005 :
> > Unsure if this should be in this group (it seemed the best fit), so sorry if
> > not.
> >
> > We have users My Documents folders redirected via a GPO to a common share on
> > a Windows 2000 SP4 Server, which also acts as a DC. The partition these
> > folders reside on is NTFS. Each of the users folders have a recycler folder
> > (path would be \\servername\share\users\<username>\recycler\<SID of recycle
> > bin>), which although is empty when you browse via explorer, is not empty
> > when you check it from a DOS prompt. By doing del *.* I can delete the files
> > in the folder, but on most folders permissions are set such that the domain
> > adminstrator cannot delete these files, which means I would have to reset
> > permissions on the files.
> >
> > If you logon as admin to the server console, the recycle bin also appears
> > empty, although as this issue relates around user profiles this is not
> > surprising.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest the easiest way to delete all these files from the
> > Recycler folder for each user, without manually going through 200+ folders,
> > changing permissions and deleting the files?
> >
> > many thanks for any suggestions,
> >
> > Craig.
>
> why would you want to delete user files?
> how can you decide what they still need and what they want to throw
> away permanently?
>
> there are people out there who depend on the recycle bin to keep files
> stowed away for a while
> that's the main purpose of the recycle bin
>
> if there isn't yet, then you defintely need a policy witch states an
> administrator has to stay away from the user's files
> any user, any time, anyway
>
> you'll get the short end if someone looses a file,
> you will be held responsable every time
> since you have the habbit of simply deleting files without the user's
> approval
>
> grtz
>
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