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Tidying up the Drives
DZ wrote: I had a customer who was drive map crazed. They mapped a different letter for EVERYTHING, even though most of the mappings pointed essentially to the same locations.
For example, F: mapped to \\server\vol1, U: mapped to \\server\vol1\users, and h: was a map root of \\server\vol1\users\userhome (where userhome was the actual home directory of the user in question).
While most users did not map to U: and only saw their own home directory in "H", IT managers had access to all user home directories under U: So, PHB could see u:\users\phb, and h: as the same directory.
One day, while "tidying up", PHB deleted his entire home directory from u:\users\phb, because it was an exact duplicate of h:
All I can say is thank goodness for salvage!
A similar issue happened many years ago for a small site that was doing Windows networking. UserA had shared out her C: drive from the root to other users in the office as H:, and she managed to map her own C: drive as H: She then phoned me when her Windows workstation stopped working after she deleted all of the duplicate stuff on the H: drive! Alas, that time there was no salvage!
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God bless salvage
Submitted by kgroneman on 8 September 2010 - 11:52am.
I love it when people don't know what something is so they just delete it.
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I had a boss like that once....
Submitted by MHGlenn on 9 September 2010 - 12:10pm.
....I just barely managed to keep him from deleting everything he didn't understand out of NDS (Which was just about everything....).
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Re: Tidying up the Drives
Submitted by ecyoung on 8 September 2010 - 1:29pm.
"Drive map crazed". This sounds like my workplace. No matter that, for 9+ years (since Windows XP), there's been the ability to populate the places bar in file open/save dialogs, or to use basic scripts to add shortcuts to Network Places :-(
Salvage is "ok", but unfortunately the only free recursive salvage utility out there seems to be Salvage98, which restores all folder/file names in uppercase :-( For files on Windows servers, there's the free Previous Versions functionality , built in to Vista/7 (extra download for 2000/XP). It's not quite the same as salvage, but has worked as a similar quick fix (without having to resort to backup/restore).
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