Folder & Files permissions:
File Server 2003, NTFS, AD:
Issue:
Users need to be able to create subfolders with certain names, files with certain names, update these files, save to these files with same file name.
Users should NOT be able to delete anything.
I have found that if I set Deny DELETE and DELETE Subfolders & Files permissions (which is the only item I need) then the users while creating subfolders or files can NOT name them. Name seems to default to New Folder or New File.
Question:
Is there a way to set folders & files permissions so that users can create whatever they need, name and re-name whatever they need but NOT be able to DELETE anything?
Thank you,
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No, unfortunately by renaming you are essentially deleting the file and creating a new one. What you need is a business practice change for those users. A copy of the original document saved with the new name and then someone that can be trusted on what to delete has to take the responsibility and has modify rights to go and clean up old doc's.
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by: oBdAPosted on 2009-10-12 at 16:13:47ID: 25555864
No. Renaming requires delete permissions.
And being able to modify a file is basically the same as being able to delete it: if a user deletes the complete content of a Word document and saves the empty hull, it's as good as deleting the file.
Speaking of Word: Office (and other applications as well) will not work properly in a folder where the user has no delete permissions, because the Office applications save a file by first saving a temporary file, and only when this file has been written is the old one deleted and the new one renamed to the old name.
And it's not even remotely possible in any way to use NTFS permissions to restrict file names.