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Why do deleted items keep returning on workstations running Windows 10 with roaming profiles on server 2008 R2

Some of the users running Windows 10 on work stations have items they delete from their desktop and files they delete from their documents folders return the next time they log on.
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Sounds as if it may be a permissions issue on the server side. Do a test and delete a file on a local users computer and then log them out. Look at the server to see if the file was deleted as well. If the file was not removed from the server, I would verify the user has permissions to delete from the space on the server. There are many hurdles in file redirection and roaming profiles.
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Its possible for this to happen if you are using any real time syncing software.  Depending on the sync settings, it may be restoring the files from the synced folders.
It is certainly possible. Not knowing your setup leaves me at a disadvantage so I can only be generic.
Verify your files are actually getting removed at time of deletion. This is an easy and simple test. If they are getting deleted but coming back after that (and I mean at the server level) you can chase from where and why. Your sync software should have some type of logging to see the files it is moving around.
You may need to turn off the Recycle Bin and have files deleted immediately. You can do this in Group Policy or Preferences.
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The system does not have any additional software to sync set up.  The users have roaming profiles, but seldom roam - they use the same station every day.  the work stations are windows 10 professional 1703.  The server is server 2008 R2.

The deletion seems to work fine today, but during the week it does not.  Could it be that everyone logs off at about the same time, so network and server traffic is high for a few minutes.  There are 16 users on the network
Server load vs. demand should not be a factor in this scenario. The logoff process would just take an extended period while it waits for the server to copy any files it needs to move. Are the affected users using wireless and or possibly laptops? If laptops, do they use sleep or hibernate often? I have seen the hibernate feature do some funky things when people disconnect logically from the network, and the server never gets to perform the needed transactions.
Are you using folder redirection?
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The users are using wired desktops.
Sleep and hibernate are disabled

There are no errors appearing in the Windows logs relating to profile issues
is the data reappearing in desktop, documents, etc.
User roaming profile plus folder redirection?
If only roaming profile, does the user access limited to a single system, potentially, the user over a period of time loged on on multiple systems, unless a GPO is set to delete cached profile on logout with successful sync, a cached version of a user's profike remains on a system.
To a point that on user logout from that system, items previously deleted are effectively restored.

If there is folder redirection in place, understanding the circumstances under which a user deleted file reemerges.

Commonly, desktop deleted items are immediate.
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The main concern is from the desktop.  Files are deleted, and other files moved to a folder on the desktop.  The next time the user logs on, the deleted files are back, and the files moved from the desktop to a folder on the desk top are back on the desktop and in the folder.

The users use the same computer each day.  Roaming profiles only is employed.  Folder redirection is not employed.

In a test [on a weekend with no one else logged on], the deleting  seemed to work fine.  When files are deleted during a work day, they re-appear.
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Outlook 2016 defaults to Documents\Outlook files\ in the users profile.  For users with large outlook files, I move them to the apps\local folder and have an auto run robo copy to copy them to the server after the main rush is over, but before the backup is scheduled.

Could you provide more information on implementing folder re-direct as I have never implemented it before.
Folder redirection controls, my document (documents), desktop, appdata, downloads, faborites, start menu.
This is done by GPO, user configuration, security settings, folder redirection. When testing make sure to set security filter to a specific user removing authenticated_user.
Make sure to also set the folder redirection rule per folder to copy back the data when the policy no longer applies. This way a user transitions from one department to another will get their folder redirections follow the department/OU to which they belong.
A folder redirection policy applies only based on user whose folders are local to the profile. Changing redirection destination requires the data revert from folder redirection at which point the new folder redirection will apply.

Userprofile\appdata\local\local is equivalent to the old local settings which gets discarded in roaming profike+folder redirection on logout..

If not mistaken userprofile\appdata\local\roaming is the ok'd reference to application data.