I just talked with the help desk guy earlier this morning and I just found out that it has happening in different departments, and they are headed to different locations. Also nobody has an account that has access to all the different places this has been happening. Also nobody here has Windows XP.
Steve Evans SDSU Foundation (619) 594-0653
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph Bishop [mailto:Joseph.Bishop@jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:39 PM To: Steve Evans; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: CIFS Files are Moving
Steve,
This might be reaching a little, but who knows.
I have noticed on my WinXp machine that if I hover with the mouse over a
directory name in Windows Explorer, that it will auto select the directory. It is possible that the person that has an access to all users directories could be auto-selecting the directory....then thinking they are clicking on another directory on
the same level, they actually dragged one directory under another.
I don't like this handy feature in Windows...it can be a problem if you are not used to it. I am used to having to click on the directory to highlight, then
hold down the mouse to drag, then release on the directory you want to drop/move the folder to. It is not to hard to accidentally do this if the auto select feature is on.
I have only noticed this problem on my personal machine...and I don't know how to turn off the auto select.
Maybe that will help...maybe it is not related. Sounds like someone is accidentally moving folders though. Someone with the right level of access.
Cheers!
Joe
At 07:56 PM 12/16/02 -0800, Steve Evans wrote:
We have one department that is having a problem with their share on our
Filer.
About 4 times in the last month a users directory has been randomly placed in a certain users folder. So two folders that are usually on the same level (\filer\dept\user-a and \filer\dept\user-b) all of a sudden user-a will be under user-b. The other interesting thing is that when you go to \filer\dept\user-a~snapshot\ all of the folders are listed as files. (named hourly.0, weekly.0, etc) But if you go through \filer\dept~snapshot\hourly.0\user-a everything is fine. We are almost sure that this isn't a user doing something stupid (but we can't be sure.)
Steve Evans SDSU Foundation (619) 594-0653