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We have Windows2000 at the office, with 8 puters on the lan. One of the
fellas called me today and said that all his files were gone from the
computer. Sure enough, somebody removed or deleted them. They were excel
spreadsheets representing hours upon hours of work. They had password
protection to prevent reading or modifying. Why were they allowed to be
deleted? I thought that if they were protected like that, then they couldn't
be deleted without the password. Also, can folders also be password
protected to keep idiots away?

Thanks,

--Jim



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Password protecting a file will not prevent it from being deleted. Check the
ntfs permissions on his computer/folder. All you need is modify or full
permissions to delete a folder/file. Possibly someone gained administrator
access to his computer because he had an easy to guess password [even
remotely] or they were able to boot his computer from a cdrom or floppy to
reset the administrator password on his computer. You may still be able to
recover the files if you act quickly. There are many file recovery programs
available. See link for one below that you can try for free. There may be
limitations on file size to recover until you pay for the program
owever. --- Steve

http://www.quetek.com/
 
It's up to you to set the appropriate NTFS file permissions. The default
for most new shares is for everyone to have full control over all files,
until you improve the settings.

You will probably not want to remove the Delete permission from Microsoft
Office files or the folders that contain them. First, MS office apps like
Excel tend to create new temp files every time a file is opened, and if it
can't delete the temp file when the real file is closed, temp files start
accumulating. Second, users start getting error messages when they do
things like try to create, open and/or save a file. Some of those error
messages you can get around using a variety of tricks, but this is
inconvenient when other users have to remember the tricks.

www.download.com has other undelete utilities. Note that Windows does not
come with an undelete utility, so if you really want to be sure you can
undelete the file, you'd want to install some uninstall program that
protects deleted files BEFORE a problem occurs.

Last, you really really really need to consider some kind of file backup
solution to back up your files, such as tape backup, or even just the
NTBACKUP command from Veritas that comes with Windows 2000.
 
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