John Baird (creator of the aptly named John Baird Utilities - ) has found that, at least in NetWare 6's Novell Storage Services (NSS) volumes, there is a field called updator for folder entries.īaird reports that, "Some tests reveal the updator field is updated when a change is made in a directory. Before moving it back to its rightful place, though, you may be able to discover who the culprit was. Next, search the volume the folder was on and then the other volumes for one of the files that have "gone missing." Try for one with a unique file name so there's less confusion. The first thing to do when someone reports a folder missing is to check to see if you can salvage the files from "deleted directories." If the files aren't there then it's likely they weren't deleted but simply moved. When it happens, the first thing you need to do, of course, is get the files and folders returned to where they belong, restore any trustee rights that have "disappeared" and then find out who did the deed so they can be re-educated. Computer savvy IT personnel are less prone to doing this than others, but it still afflicts them from time to time. Cut and paste, also known as "click and move" in this case, can create frantic calls to the helpdesk ("my spreadsheet folder disappeared!"), as well as frantic scrambling by the IT department ("I know the \LOGIN directory was here when I left last night!"). Windows Explorer is notorious for the "quick and easy" way that files and folders can be moved from one part of the disk drive to another (or even to a different drive - from the network to a user's desktop, for example).
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