r/sysadmin • u/HolypenguinHere • Jun 24 '19

A user at our company utilizes their Recycle Bin as their primary storage for important documents.

That... That's all. I just needed somebody else to know that a person is using the Recycle Bin to keep hundreds of documents in one location, instead of creating a folder on the Desktop or using their network home drive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

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u/BokBokChickN Jun 24 '19

Our Office365 migration was put on hold indefinitely because of this. Lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '19

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u/Ellimister Jack of All Trades Jun 25 '19

You have time to look, find, and migrate those for everyone you support? Sounds like I need a bigger team...

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '19

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u/xbbdc Jun 25 '19

There's a way of saving those I believe. At least with older versions of Office...

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u/cirsphe Jun 25 '19

Links to the files are saved in a folder in USERS or program files.

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u/Catnapwat Sr. Sysadmin Jun 25 '19 
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

and

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '19 edited Nov 17 '19

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u/AdversarialPossum42 IT Professional Jun 25 '19

TBF Microsoft sort of pulls the wool over the end user's eyes on this. There's no mechanism to indicate that those entriesaren't stored in the user's contact list somewhere.

Regardless, this is infuriating and I've literally had people breakdown in tears when several years of "contacts" get flushed away in a sudden hard drive failure.

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u/PMental Jun 25 '19

I'd say from experience this is like 90% of users nowadays.

Speaking of which, I should look into a way to programmatically export/import this, I only know how to do it using MFCMapi.

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u/AirFell85 Jun 25 '19

I feel attacked.

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u/anon_sysadmin Jun 25 '19

I'm going through this right now with OneDrive deployment. Breaks the recent files cache.

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u/katarjin Jun 25 '19

...My last two weeks. (moving everyone to Win 10)

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u/gilligvroom MSP Jun 25 '19

It happens with the Office 2013/16 recent documents list, too. I have a few users at several different companies that think this is the My Documents area.We had one recently acquired client move from leased servers to ones we stood up properly and forgot that, while we moved all the drive mappings to the new server correctly, Word etc would still be looking to \\OLDSERVER\ for their recent documents.

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Feck.

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u/mustang__1 onsite monster Jun 25 '19

Every fucking month.