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

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 05/02/04 

Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 09:19:58 -0400

Andrew Mitchell wrote:
> "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.

I have to say, given that there are so many other places where you get a
confirm box like "Are you sure you want to do X? Are you REALLY sure? Y/N"
in Windows, it would be really nice to have one of these available in
Explorer for those times when we've all accidentally dragged a folder into
another one. I miss Winfile sometimes.

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