[dba-Tech] network shortcut issue

[Zimmer, Michael]

We had a weird problem crop up at work:  We have several PCs running Win 7 that have shortcuts on their desktop to Excel files that are stored on a network drive.  However......this morning, all of those shortcuts were now local copies of the network files!   Somehow the shortcuts "disappeared" and a copy of the actual Excel or Access DB was sitting on the desktop in their place.

The PCs are connected to the network via Ethernet and we've had no outages or network hic ups that we know of lately.

If it were only one or two shortcuts becoming local files, I'd suspect user error.  However more than 20 on each PC (and each PC being in a different office) tells me that something else happened.


Mike