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Posted by Roger Abell [MVP] on March 23, 2007, 2:44 pm
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> Changing permissions has undesirable side-effects such as
> making the creation or editing of documents impossible
Not so.
If in the NTFS permissions dialog you click Advanced, and
then you highlight a grant and click edit, then you will see that
there is a dropbox allowing to specify to what the specific
grant applies.
In your case, you would be wanting to distinguish between
grants for This folder and subfolders and for Files only.
If you do not grant delete on folders they will not get deleted,
etc.
Roger
> We have a large data structure containing documents in hierarchical
> folders.
> They are mainly used by speed-typists who don't always look at the screen
> whilst typing, so they are not always aware when something is going
> horribly
> wrong.
>
> One of the biggest problems is that of folders being accidentally moved or
> renamed from within File..Open dialog boxes of applications, when the
> user's
> actual intention is to find and open a document. As we all know this is
> oh-so easy to do - all it takes is a slip of the mouse, or a slightly slow
> double-click when opening a folder. As there is no confimation asked,
> often
> the user isn't even aware it's happened.
>
> By looking at the nature of the damage I'd guess that slow-click is the
> main
> culprit- the users habitually type the name of a folder to navigate to it
> in
> the list, BUT if a folder has been unintentionally slow-clicked instead of
> double-clicked, then it gets renamed instead.
>
> We need some kind of protective measure, as the the data is suffering
> gradual 'entropy' from the accumulation of mouse-slips by people who
> aren't
> even trying to make changes to it at the time!
>
> I was looking for ways of either turning off move/rename from within
> dialog-boxes (especially the slow-click variety of rename) or else of
> using
> NTFS permissions to stop renaming of the root folders in the structure.
> Neither seem to be very feasible, though. Changing permissions has
> undesirable side-effects such as making the creation or editing of
> documents
> impossible, while there seems to be no registry or policy control for the
> slow-click action that does most of the damage.
>
> Mostly XP Pro desktops, NT4 server.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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