DISK IS FULL

[GooGol]

We have set up NTFS user security policy on a specific folder to allow
only
the modification of the files in the folder. Word creates and
deletes
temporary files that it produces once any specific document is opened
in the
folder which leads to a violation of the security policy. Whenever I
try to
edit a document, it tells me DISK IS FULL, and it denies me access.

We do not want to give delete and create rights to these users. But I
want
the users to be able to edit the files at hand with out giving them
delete
and create rights.

Any workaround ? any suggestions ? greatly appreciate it.

 

[Keme]

We have set up NTFS user security policy on a specific folder to allow
only
the modification of the files in the folder. Word creates and
deletes
temporary files that it produces once any specific document is opened
in the
folder which leads to a violation of the security policy. Whenever I
try to
edit a document, it tells me DISK IS FULL, and it denies me access.

We do not want to give delete and create rights to these users. But I
want
the users to be able to edit the files at hand with out giving them
delete
and create rights.

Any workaround ? any suggestions ? greatly appreciate it.

You want to allow modification of existing documents, but no document
added or removed?

I have no Windows server available to test the following workarounds,
but they might work...

If you don't rely on any active content (macros, etc.), OpenOffice may
be of use. This Office suite will open any plain MS office document (as
far as I've experienced, "plain" meaning no active content or document
hierarchy/linking) and uses a different failsafing strategy (no
additional files created, it seems, which agrees well with the security
policy indicated).

A different strategy is to make users copy docs, edit on private
folders, then copy back to the protected folder. This defeats one part
of the failsafing, though (file locking, to prevent cancellation of a
change due to an overlapping change).

 

[Beth Melton]

They're going to need the create and delete rights if you want them to
edit files. There is no workaround.

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