My Documents / Registry Fix

[NYR]

Hello,
Maybe someone has heard of this and found a trick that can help me.
Problem:
We are on a large network, W2K and WXP machines. We map all users "My Documents" folder to the "Z" drive, which is a share on the server. The problem I have is, when the user deletes a file from "My Documents", it is really deleted off the server, does not go to the recycle bin, and it has to be recovered from tape backup.
Solution (Hopefully)
Is there a registry fix that anyone knows of that will still allow me to map the "My Documents" folder to the server, but somehow trick it to when they delete a file, it goes to the local machine, in the recycle bin? I know that when a document is stored in "My Documents" on the hard drive, and you delete it, it is sent to the recycle bin. I would like to be able to do that while having the "My Documents" folder mapped to the server.
Sorry so long, and Thanks.

 

[danomac]

AFAIK, you can't change this behaviour. Windows is working as designed. That's why daily backups are important.

If you have a network share which a lot of people have access to, you may consider restricting delete access from them, and give delete access only to a few select people.

Alternatively, if you use linux, I have read a while back that Samba has been modified to provide something of a "network recycle bin" for the machines it runs on. Google around for that if you are interested. Basically if you deleted something over the network on that linux machine, it would get moved into a recycle bin of sorts. I don't know how stable it is though.

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[NYR]

danomac,
Thanks for the reply. I sure hope someone else out there has come across this. If there is no tweak for this, then hopefully some programmer can write one. Hopefully I'll get some more responses on this issue.
I am a big fan for tape backup, but the guys I work with take days to recover a file. It sure would be great to have an alternative.

 

[bcastner]

The behavior is in MS speak "by design."

You can use one of the many file recovery utilities on the server if you have access to it, but I can understand that if this is a daily issue, using an unerase utility at the server is not a desirable solution.

The only thought I have is that if one used roaming profiles, the local profile cache is not synchronized with the server image until logoff.