Hey Ken,

you can move a folder using drag and drop if you hold down the Ctrl key while dragging and dropping.

I have known experienced users to do this by mistake. I've even done it a couple times, thankfully I realised quite quickly that I had moved the wrong folder.

Frank.

Frank Cazabon

On 22/07/2019 10:19 AM, Ken Dibble wrote:

Hi Folks,

I'm asking you guys about this because, frankly, it's the only group of people I have to ask questions. :) I'm hoping that one of you can suggest something based on a deeper understanding of Windows than I have.

Some weeks ago what I *thought* was a _copy_ of somebody's entire "My Documents" folder appeared in a network share that is only used for my Foxpro database system.

Since I have people accidentally, and apparently unknowingly, dragging and dropping folders from where they should be to where they shouldn't all the time here--in some cases moving enough data to cause a Windows file copy/move dialog to appear, and stay visible for quite some time--my assumption is that is what happened in this case.

However, there are some points in this case that are confounding:

1. The user is not a typical computer illiterate. I did not expect him

to be capable of such a mistake.

2. The folder was not just copied, it turned out to have been _moved_,

which is not do-able by drag-and-drop without some user interaction, yes?

3. The folder was the user's official designated "My Documents"

folder, which also should not be movable without a whole lot of user interaction, right?

The user's device is a Windows 7 Pro laptop. He moved the folder to a share on a Windows 2012 server. The only other unusual thing about this machine is that it's lost trust with the domain a couple of times in the last few days. But his documents folder first appeared on the network share weeks ago.

So if any of you would like to amuse yourself by positing suggestions of how this could happen without the user being aware of it, please respond here.

Thanks.

Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org

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