Re: How to not allow user move folders accidentially in MS server 2003?

On Feb 2, 2:05 am, "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNoS...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Al Dunbar" <AlanD...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNoS...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ken" <kenluk2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dear all,

Anyone have solution to not allow user movefoldersinto another folder
accidentially in MS server 2003?
We are using share folder options to everyfoldersbut any users can
dragfoldersto move into another folder very easy.

Thanks in advance!

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Regards,

Ken Luk

The most close thing to a real solution is user education.

You can set thefoldersso that they cannot delete them by
use of their NTFS permissions, such as granting only List
on thefolders, but that does not solve the underlying issue.
If they do not have delete on thefoldersthey can stilldrag
anddropthe folder to somewhere, and they cause a copy
to get set up there and all that they can delete removed
from the original location, which is just as bad as if they
had successfully moved everything (perhaps worse).

There is no technical solution to this since copy is not
treated as a transacted, atomic action, and so as much as
can happen will happen.

Roger

The question was how to prevent users from movingfoldersaccidentally,
which would imply that they should be allowed to movefoldersif they are
doing it on purpose. If that is what he meant, the answer is that this is
impossible. If you can find any way to keep people from making mistakes,
the same software could probably do their work for them. ;-)

/Al

Nice observation Al. We could probably also use that accident
prevention technique to prevent all stubbed toes, all lost keys,

Those examples have easy and inexpensive countermeasures to prevent or
recover from: Wear shoes, make copies of keys.

The difference with accidental drag and drop is that the mistake is
easy to make, difficult to prevent with training, and a big PITA for
everyone to deal with and should seemingly have an easily configurable
solution.




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