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Conference decwet::windows-nt

Title:Windows NT
Notice:See note 15.0 for HCL location
Moderator:TARKIN::LIN.com::FOLEY
Created:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6086
Total number of notes:31449

3885.0. "undeleteable file ???" by MEOC02::MCLEAND (PC's are just a passing fad) Tue Jan 09 1996 17:46

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3885.1BUSY::SLABAudiophiles do it 'til it hertz!Mon Jun 02 1997 14:2213
    
    	Somehow, someone created a folder called "New folder" in a "public"
    	NT area.  For some reason, even ADMIN can't get to the file to do
    	anything with it, nor can they even determine the rightful owner.
    
    	This is a bad thing, because any time you try and create a folder
    	it gives it the default name of "New folder" until you change it,
    	and we get an "access denied" error when attempting same.
    
    	So, how did this happen, and how can it be fixed?
    
    	Thanks for any info.
3885.2TARKIN::LINBill LinMon Jun 02 1997 14:356
    re: .1 by BUSY::SLAB
    
    Are you sure the administrator cannot "take ownership" of the
    folder?
    
    /Bill
3885.3BUSY::SLABAudiophiles do it 'til it hertz!Mon Jun 02 1997 15:0015
    
    	He said he couldn't.
    
    	More info ... the public area is the place where all of the Exchange
    	.PST and .PAB files are kept.  "New folder" was used in place of a
    	digital1 username.
    
    	CS/IT seems to think that a user created a folder from Exchange in
    	order to set up a place for .PST and .PAB files, and was possibly
    	still connected to Exchange and therefore had the file "locked".
    
    	I guess they brought the system down and back up, and the connect-
    	ion was severed, therefore allowing ADMIN to take ownership and/or
    	delete the folder.