Ghost files show up on network.

Where is the network share hosted?  Is it in one of the servers above or a SAN or NAS?

No SANS or NAS.  It's a windows server (IBM). Files are saved on the AD Primary domain controller.

Laptops or Desktops?

Offline files enable?

How are the users pointed to their documents folder?

Any login scripts used?

Mapped drives?

Same computer they always log onto?

We have a combination of laptops and desktops. Some of both are having issues.
Offline files are not enabled.
Users have a mapped drive to their personal folder, and within the personal folder seems to be the issue. They have security to other folders as needed. Each person's login goes to a folder within their department folder.
No login scripts.
Mapped drives, yes.
The users with the issues, always log in on the same computer. Each person has his/her own computer.

When the old files show up can they use them? If yes, then the next time a user has old files popup , right click on one and go to properties, look at the folder path and see where its pointing to.

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Great idea! I will do that the next time I get a call.

check the security event of the system when it logs at that time...
and check any hidden drives located on the each of the domain ?

Will do.

I'm also having a time sync issue on the server to computers (another question on Expert Exchange). I looked at one of the computers with 'old files' and watched as it 'built' all of the files today.  The files were on the server/drive where they should be. It looks like the files slowly populate, users are panicking when they don't see their files quickly. Don't know if the issues are related.