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Posted by Roger Abell [MVP] on January 30, 2006, 10:09 am
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Great question for an Office related newsgroup.
The issues has been subject of multiple threads, and as far as
I know there has never been a solution offered (other than make
Office respect the temp environment variable if possible).
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to prevent network users from deleting folders and files on a
> network drive.
>
> I have decided to apply read/write but not modify rules to network users
> in
> order to prevent them deleting important folders etc however there is a
> problem with MS Office.
>
> When a document is opened or edited Word will always create a temp file,
> this temp file is then left on the drive because it was created but could
> not
> be deleted because the user is unable to delete.
>
> This in my mind is quite a serious problem as I do not want the network
> drive to become full of these .tmp files which are not necessary and take
> up
> resources.
>
> Is there a way to prevent the .tmp files being created in the first place,
> or a way in which to allow them to be removed once the user has closed the
> program.
>
> --
> Thanks, Cep.
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