0 kb document

[LadyH]

Forgive the lack of information here for specific details, but....I know someone who dragged numerous files from their local system, My Documents (Office 2000) to a users directory on their NT 4.0 server. After the files were dragged, they all showed a file size of 0 KB (on both the server and the local system) when looked at in Windows explorer (Win 98). The documents will open when clicked on, in the appropriate application, but the data is not there. This happened to all of the files that were created, whether it was Word or Excel. Any insight or information would be appreciated, a person lost a large number of files otherwise.

Thanks,
Heather

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[Dreamboat]

Hi, Heather. If you right-click one of those documents, what is the MS-DOS name?

It almost sounds like they created shortcuts instead of actually moving or copying the files.

FYI: A blank Word document created using the default normal.dot file will be 19KB.
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[dneufarth]

Do they have proper rights to write to the user's folder?


Dave

 

[LadyH]

The documents have the proper name when I right click on them, they are not shortcuts.
The user has full access to their users directory, and even if they didn't it wouldn't explaine why they became 0 byte documents (to my knowledge anyway, I've never seen that as an issue when a user doesn't have the proper rights).
I've tried to open on several other systems and no luck, even on the original....
Heather

pcheather@yahoo.com

 

[dneufarth]

I remember a few years back when copying files to a Novell Netware 3.x server that I got an error message on the copy, the copy failed, and the target directory had 0 KB entries.


Dave

 

[LadyH]

This is on an NT server, and even when the files are then copied to a disk, they appear as 0kb files. Such a bizzare thing, never seen anything like it before.

pcheather@yahoo.com