Files and Folders Reappear After Deletion with Roaming Profiles

ID: Q236073

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition version 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

SYMPTOMS

After you delete files or folders of a user's roaming profile, the files and folders reappear.

CAUSE

If a user has a roaming profile and logs on to different computers (locally cached profiles enabled), they may experience the following behavior:

After deleting files or folders on their profile and logging off from computer A, the files or folders reappear if they log on to computer B, where they have logged on before.

This problem occurs because the locally-cached profile on computer B still has the files and directories in the locally-cached profile. When downloading the roaming profile from the profile server, the user has a local profile with the former deleted files and folders again. After logging off from this computer, the complete profile is copied back and the former deletion of files and folders seemed to have no effect.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, disable the locally-cached profiles. To do this, please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

Q173870 How to Automatically Delete Locally Cached Profiles

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

Additional query words:

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:2000; winnt:4.0
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbbug