NTFS Permissions Conundrum

[Patrick]

We have a shared folder that we want to allow users to create, but not move
or delete files from. We've set permissions appropriately, and everything
works fine except for .tmp files. When a user opens a Word document, a .tmp
file gets created. When they close the document, the .tmp file cannot be
deleted and the folder fills up with these .tmp files. Any way around this?

 

[Jay Freedman]

We have a shared folder that we want to allow users to create, but
not move or delete files from. We've set permissions appropriately,
and everything works fine except for .tmp files. When a user opens a
Word document, a .tmp file gets created. When they close the
document, the .tmp file cannot be deleted and the folder fills up
with these .tmp files. Any way around this?

No, there isn't. You can either allow delete permissions so Word can clean
up after itself, or you as administrator can delete the .tmp files (after
everyone else has shut down Word and logged out of the shared folder),
manually or with a batch file.

There's no way to make Word stop creating .tmp files in the same folder as
the documents. For details, see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=211632.