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Shared Computer Toolkit and lingering profile folders
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Shared Computer Toolkit and lingering profile folders
4:25 PM EST 11/6/06
After I locked the public profile the first time on a new computer, every time the user logs on and off an empty profile folder is left under Documents & Settings. They keep incrementing in the form of user.computer.000, .001, .002 etc.

I have this notion that I've seen this mentioned before but now can't find anything. I've posted on the MSCT board but gotten no response. I've looked at the permissions on this machine versus one that doesn't have this problem but don't see any difference. UPHClean is installed.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Re: Shared Computer Toolkit and lingering profile folders
4:06 PM EST 11/10/06 as a reply to Mike Poole.
I have only one new workstation set up with SCT on XP and I am not seeing the empty folders that you mentioned. However, I have 10 workstations with W2K and PAC computing tool and all of these computers have empty folders that are generated by a user logging off. I used to delete these empty folders and then noticed that once there are about 50 of them, there are no more generated. I haven't seen any particular problems with the workstations whether the empty folders are deleted or left on the C drive. They just don't seem to be a problem. I would like to know what causes this too, but if it isn't broke......
Kay
Re: Shared Computer Toolkit and lingering profile folders
5:50 PM EST 11/10/06 as a reply to Kay Larson.
Both the PAC tool and the SCT (with the "Lock this profile" feature engaged) are supposed to create a copy of the profile when you log in, use that copy during the session, and then delete the copy when you log out. That allows people to do things like save a file to the desktop, but then have that file not be there after logging out and back in.

We used to see it happen with the PAC tool that sometimes that didn't work right and you would get all these extra copies of the profiles, or else it just wouldn't delete the temporary version and changes would get retained.

So it's something along those lines, but if the folders themselves are empty, then it sounds like the contents are getting deleted, it's just the profile folder that's staying.

You might try deleting the folders and then unlock the profile, log into and out of it once or twice and check that there aren't any more being generated. If not try locking it back down again.