Re: Is there anyway I can stop users moving folders to other folders?

From: Andrew Mitchell (amitchell_at_removecasey.vic.gov.au)
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 09:37:30 -0700

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> said

> If you have read permissions to a file, then you can copy it to another
> folder where you are allowed to write but not move it. Move is
> essentially a read/write/delete operation while copy is just read/write.
> You need to check that the user is not a member of another group that
> has delete/modify/full permissions for the folder in including the
> advanced permissions page. If the user is the owner of that file, then
> he will have the ntfs permissions of the creator/owner also. You can go
> to advanced/owner to see who is the current owner of file. --- Steve
>

Disabling left-click drag and drop operations within Explorer/My Computer
would be a great way to achieve this, but I don't know of a way to do it
without writing a separate app to trap the drag/drop operation.

Still allowing the Right-Click, context menu driven drag and drop while
blocking the left-click drag and drop would force the user to make a choice
of copying or pasting and would prevent the 'shaky hand' left-click drag and
drop move operations that happen by accident.

*Anyone listening MS product developers???* :-)

Andy.

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