Thursday, March 18, 2010

Re: Active Directory 2003 Files Disappearing

How are the kids logging on/off? Desktop? Wireless? Pc laptop?

Could it be your antivirus software is automatically deleting files? File
permission issues where students are accessing the wrong folders?

Brian Lee
Manlius Pebble Hill School

> From: Renee Ramig <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:47:34 -0700
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> Subject: Active Directory 2003 Files Disappearing
>
> The last couple of days files seem to mysteriously be disappearing out
> of folders in shared folders.
>
> The first two times it happened, I blamed the kids, but the third one I
> know it was there and then gone.
>
> All of these were student files, and the folders were still there but
> every file in the folder was gone. I don't do backups of the student
> files, but I ran an undelete program and it didn't even register the
> files had ever been deleted.
>
> Any idea what could cause this? We have had some weird network glitches
> lately, so I have been tightening security (such as turning off access
> for student users after 5 and on weekends). But, I can't imagine
> anything I have done would be causing files to just vanish.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>
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