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Situation:
User has 2000 Professional workstation connecting to a
stand-alone 2003 server share with a mapped drive.
Usernames and passwords are the same. Also running Office
2002.
Created a new drive map on the server to shared excel
files. The user wanted to have those files available
whenever he click "Open File". I set the "Defaul File
Location" in Excel's Options to the mapped network drive.
Upon doing this, when I click the open button, it
shows "My Documents" but "My Documents" is mapped to the
network share instead of pointing to his hard drive.
After changing this back from the mapped drive to this
local files - all of the files in his local "My Documents"
were gone. Whenever the the shortcut for My Documents was
changed to the mapped drive (by excel) it wiped all files
in his local MD directory - everything - nothing in
recycle bin - no where.
Why did excel map the My Documents shortcut to the shared
drive? Why, in doing so did it total wipe out all of his
local files?
User has 2000 Professional workstation connecting to a
stand-alone 2003 server share with a mapped drive.
Usernames and passwords are the same. Also running Office
2002.
Created a new drive map on the server to shared excel
files. The user wanted to have those files available
whenever he click "Open File". I set the "Defaul File
Location" in Excel's Options to the mapped network drive.
Upon doing this, when I click the open button, it
shows "My Documents" but "My Documents" is mapped to the
network share instead of pointing to his hard drive.
After changing this back from the mapped drive to this
local files - all of the files in his local "My Documents"
were gone. Whenever the the shortcut for My Documents was
changed to the mapped drive (by excel) it wiped all files
in his local MD directory - everything - nothing in
recycle bin - no where.
Why did excel map the My Documents shortcut to the shared
drive? Why, in doing so did it total wipe out all of his
local files?