[dba-Tech] network shortcut issue

[John R Bartow]

This post is similar in that it involves connecting via a network share.
What I'm thinking is that it may be a utility accessing those shortcuts via
network file sharing that causes this. Could well be your security scanner
or file synchronization software?
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-files/shortcut-t
arget-change-to-network-addresses/4c5375ae-c0c7-49f2-ab6a-58a2b617dfb7?auth=
1

But this is so strange that I would call Microsoft support. And I rarely
call MS support.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Zimmer, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 10:19 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] network shortcut issue

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



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