Re: Can't Delete Home Directories
From: Steven Umbach [MVP] (n9rou_at_nsattbi.com)
Date: 07/11/03
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:55:31 GMT
Hi Michael. Here is a link to a KB article and another link that may be of
help. As an aside I have had similar problems and I do not know why this
worked but in a lot of situations when I could not delete a folder having
errors similar to yours, I went to properties/general/advanced where there
is a setting for "folder is ready for archiving". Just for the heck of it I
unchecked that setting and hit apply. After that I was able to delete the
folder [with proper permission]. In some cases if that setting was not
selected for a folder, I would select it hit apply and then unselect it
again and would be able to delete folder. In other situations where I was
unable to delete a folder, if I started at the bottom most subfolder and
started deleting from there I was able to delete everthing - just a little
more work. --- Steve
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320081
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_d.htm#del
"Michael Murphy" <MurphyMCSE@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a07e01c34683$440193c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> An admin in our enterprise deleted a collection of AD user
> accounts. When we then tried to delete the associated home
> directories we get an error message saying "Can't access
> My Pictures the file may already be in use by another
> application." When I try to take ownership of the
> directories I first get an "Access denied" message then
> a "Disk may be full or write protected" error, though the
> disk is not write protected and there is plenty of space
> on the volume.
>
> It won't let me change permissions or take ownership of
> any of the user directories. I'm wondering if that's
> because the current owner is an unknown SID, since the
> associated account has been deleted. If that's the case an
> authoratative restore of AD might be in order, but isn't
> there some other way?
>
> Why the my pictures directory is in the home folder is
> unclear to me. There is no folder redirection policy at
> any level of my AD design (Though it is not impossible
> that someone might have created such a policy for the now
> deleted OU in question).
>
> Any ideas you might have would be of great help. Thanks.
>
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