Folders in My Documents becoming Hidden

[paulhthomas]

Hi guys, hope someone can help.
I've got a 2003 domain and XP desktops.
Using a GPO the users My Documents are redirected to a file server.
The problem I have have is folders within My Documents on the server are becoming hidden what seems to be whenever files in that folder are used.
I think I've kinda worked out what is causing this but need to know how to get around it.
It seems to happen when the user is using Word and it creates the temporary files beginning with a ~ which are hidden.
It's as if Windows thinks because the folder contains hidden files it must also be hidden, or possibly it thinks it's a system folder so hides itself?
Somebody suggested creating a c:\temp folder on the local pc so word would have somewhere to put these files but this hasn't fixed it.

Any ideas greatly appreciated

Thanks

Paul

Paul Thomas
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[SDPT]

load explorerXP and "see" what you can't see ;-)

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[paulhthomas]

no no no no, I know which folders are getting hidden, I just don't know why they become hidden!

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[SDPT]

do you have a GPO that is hidding any the folders/files?

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[paulhthomas]

No GPO's in place to do this and it's only affecting this one user.
What I have done is changed the permissions on the c:\temp folder that I mentioned as the user didn't actually have write permissions to it, grrrr!
I'm hoping this will sort it but the guys out the office today so I can't test it.
Any other suggestions?


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[SDPT]

see it like this an administrator always can take ownership of any folder in the network, unless this in for a client pc, then of course you need direct contact with the machine.

Other call, check for virus....

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[paulhthomas]

Sorry SPDT. What's your point?

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[SDPT]

a) if you do not have a virus, then: b)

b)Word since I know it always creates a copy of the document it opens.

Most of the installations I went through "saves" the copy on the same place where the document is to be found.

The autosave function, unless setup otherwise saves under:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Word\

But you can change this under WORD!TOOLS!OPTIONS!FILE LOCATIONS!







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