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Prevent drag n' drop on network drives

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Souka

Diamond Member
Hello All,

I work in a small company and my users have networked drives that they occasionally moving directories around when they try to double-click folders.

Best solution I'm looking for is prompting when you drag-n-drop files or folders instead of moving.

File server is 2008, users PCs are a mix of XP Pro w/SP3 and Win7 Enterprise
AD Domain and policies do exist, but I suspect this can be controlled on the individual PCs.



I've look around on the net and haven't found anything that works yet.

Modifying share permissions (such as taking away "Delete") is not acceptable..
This has nothing to do with the Start Menu
The below registry entries do not work.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Internet Settings\Zones\0]
"1802"=dword:00000001

AND on the intranet:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Internet Settings\Zones\1]
"1802"=dword:00000001
 
Every place I've ever seen has that issue and I don't think it's something you can fix with software. The problem is training, not technical.
 
Not a training issue.... just accidents happen.

There are two types of people regarding this problem
Those that have
And those who will
 
This is not possible, because there is no difference from a rights perspective between copy and drag and drop.
 
Souka said:
Not a training issue.... just accidents happen.

There are two types of people regarding this problem
Those that have
And those who will
Click to expand...

Then you just have to deal with it or ask your users to pay enough attention to fix it when they have an accident. I think the best you could do is turn on the single-click to open bullshit so they don't have to double-click.
 
yinan said:
This is not possible, because there is no difference from a rights perspective between copy and drag and drop.
Click to expand...

I want to point this out. Drag and dropping a file is merely telling the operating system to copy the file or folder and then delete the original. There is no way for the computer to tell if the instruction was given intentionally or by accident.

However if it is happening when they are trying to double click, you can look at the accessibility options and the mouse settings to make it easier for your users to do what they want to do. You may wish to start by making the icons larger, and increasing the time window for the user to double click.
 
This happens a lot at my company too. Our users genelally find specific folders by pulling up the Open box in Excel or Word, click a folder, then start typing the name of the folder they are looking for. Word or Excel then jumps to the named folder. The problem is...they do this in a rather spastic fashion, leaving any folder in the dreaded "landing zone" (i.e. anything that starts with an A) VERY prone to being moved, repeatedly.

The best thing i've come up with is to make a safe landing zone of dummy folders.
 
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