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    accidental deletion as network drive, any protection?

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    Here's what I ended up doing:

     

    1) Created new Admin account on both PCs

    2) In PC with Drivepool, I took ownership of files on new account

    3) then shared with old account as read only

    4) left one folder as read/read in pool to transfer files to it from network

    5) setup VNC for when I needed to modify read only folders remotely

     

    Not very elegant but it works.

    accidental deletion as network drive, any protection?

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    Saitoh is correct. This isn't a DrivePool related issue, as this is how Windows handles ALL network shares. 

     

    Well, most. The only exception are the user folders (documents, desktop, downloads, etc) which appear to have special handling when on a network share. 

     

    There are utilities that try to watch for that, but nothing built in.

     

    The only other option is to set the NTFS permissions so that you will only receive read, list and execute permissions. Meaning that you'd need to use a separate account for actually deleting files. Something that is a PITA. 

     

    I'm in the process of setting that up now.  I accidentally deleted a file from a pool; luckily I had a local backup. I think that if I: 1)set up a new account on both pcs, 2) give the new account read only permission, 3) then open explorer.exe in the other PC as that new user then, I will be able to basically browse in explorer normally without worrying about accidental deletion. I'll post later on and let you know if that worked.  Maybe I shouldn't be doing all my work in my admin account, but I am:P

    accidental deletion as network drive, any protection?

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    Hello,

     

    I regularly browse my Drivepool from another computer in the network.  I've noticed that if I accidentally delete a file it will not go to the recycle bin, it gets permanently deleted. I've tried setting the files in the pool to read-only, but it doesn't seem to take.  They get marked as read only, but if I click delete they are deleted. Is there is there any way to get around this problem?

     

    Is there a way to view the network drive as read only? What would happen if I went into the pool folder in the host drive and changed the file attributes there, would this corrupt the file in some way? - and would it protect from accidental deletion? Any workarounds at all for this?

     

    thx, E

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