Env: Windows 2K8 R2 file servers, mix Windows 7 and Windows XP clients
Users in their profile have their H drive mapped to \\SERVERNAME\USERS\%USERNAME%
Currently I have fodler redirection working solidly to redirect My Docs, Pictures and Desktop to network shares, using a local file share path e.g.\\SERVERNAME\USERS\%USERNAME%\Desktop
To improve resilience, I'm wanting to move to DFS shares for user data. I'm using the existing folder under new DFS share names, so the data should stay in place.
I have this working fine for Group Data e.g \\SERVER\GROUPDATA is now \\domain.internal\GROUPDATA via a logon script change, no major problems there
I have this working fine for the users H: drive as well by altering the path in their profile from\\SERVER\USERS\%USERNAME% to \\domain.internal\USER\%USERNAME%
Through some trial and error, I now have it also working successfully for the Desktop folder after inital testing deleted the contents of the directory! (see http://sdmsoftware.com/bugs/interesting-bug-in-grouppolicy-folder-redirection-results-in-lost-data/ for an explanation of what happens!)
My Documents contents are also deleted on the server but stay on the PC in the offline folders folder and are resynched when user logs off/on
The problem I have is that the 'My Pictures' folder will always be deleted when being redirected to the new location, even when I set the Variable to UNTICKED for "Move the Contents of Pictures to the new location" as I did to get the Desktop redirection happening successfully.
Any idea why this might be happening for this particular folder?