[mso] Re: Removing users ability to delete DOC files
- From: HenryH <hhinoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "James S. Huggins (MSO)" <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:43:11 +1000
Hello James,
Thursday, July 22, 2004, 1:04:37 PM, you wrote:
JSHM> =============================
JSHM> Yes. The users are only creating Microsoft Word documents. We are
JSHM> using Word 2000 and Word 97 (I think). It is a legal practice and new
JSHM> documents are created (usually from templates -precedents-).
JSHM> I would ideally like to allow "supervisor(s)" to have full control of
JSHM> the files. But the main thing is to stop the files from being
JSHM> deleted, but allowing creation.
JSHM> I would have thought that this was a straight forward thing and had
JSHM> been addressed many times by others but I have not been able to
JSHM> discover how it can/should be done.
JSHM> =============================
JSHM> Good luck.
JSHM> Consider this. If you inhibit deletion of Word files (i.e., files of type
JSHM> .doc), you must also inhibit renaming of Word files, else the file could
be
JSHM> renamed to a non-Word and then deleted.
JSHM> Also, inhibiting deletion of the file does not inhibit deletion of the
JSHM> contents of the file.
JSHM> Also, this creates problems when attempting to save a new version of the
file,
JSHM> since saving a new version means renaming and deleting the old version.
JSHM> All this is possible of course, but it is not a simple system setting.
We have had files "go missing". As they were on the server, they did
not end in the recycle bin but I have had some success recovering them
PC Inspector (http://www.pcinspector.de/) but we want this to NOT
happen. The recovery program indicated that the files had been
deleted, hence this question about how I should make the files
un-deletable.
I am looking for protection from 'accidental' deletion rather than
ensuring that nothing is overwritten/renamed etc...
You say that "All this is possible...", what do you suggest I do then?
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