Re: File shows different date/contents from a specific PC/User

[Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like maybe the Windows File Sync has an error.  Was the file/folder ever marked as 'always available offline' on that PC?  If so, might need to turn it off.

Thanks
Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk


From: Jeff Crosby

I thought of that too and should have mentioned it.  I deleted an old, unnecessary file from that folder from my PC, then went to her PC, and the file I deleted was gone.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:18 AM, paultherrien < paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not a Windows admin either, but I'd say that that user's drive 
> mapping is pointing to someplace other than where you admin user points to.
>
>
> > On June 9, 2016 at 10:14 AM Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am not a Windows admin, so be gentle.
> >
> > We have a .xls file out on a mapped network drive (S:) where several
> people
> > enter and/or verify contents on a daily basis. It gets updated every 
> > day, including today and has a modified date of 6/9/2016. The drive 
> > is mapped at signon at the domain level.
> >
> > For a month now, for a specific user on a specific PC, it has shown 
> > the modified date as 5/2/2016. If this user is signed on to this PC 
> > and I start Windows Explorer with "run as administrator" it still 
> > shows a modified date of 5/2/2016. And the information in the file 
> > reflects that it was last updated on 5/2/2016.
> >
> > I can sign on to that PC as Administrator and the modified date date 
> > is fine at 6/9/2016.
> >
> > That user can sign on from another PC, the modified date is fine at 
> > 6/9/2016, and she can update it just fine.
> >
> > So it look like it's only that user on that PC.
> >
> > The PC with the issue is Windows 7 Pro and has been joined to the 
> > domain for several years now. The employee started last November. 
> > The problem just started last month.
> >
> > I am clueless. Ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Jeff Crosby
> > VP Information Systems
> > UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
> > P.O. Box 13369
> > Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> > 260-422-7531
> > www.dilgardfoods.com