I hope I describe this problem well. But here goes:
At one of my clients, they have a few machines which are syncing to the server using 10.4’s home folder syncing. We have been having fun trying to get it to sync the library folder, but thanks to the info on this site, I think we have that figured it out.
The problem is that when they try to save a document, it sometimes saves it to the server home folder rather than the local home folder. Now a more technical user can easily tell where it is trying to save and fix this, the generic user won’t even look at that. All they see is if it is going into Documents or on the Desktop. If they save the file on the server home folder, they get messages about there being two files that are the same when they sync. The local home folder has a 0k file and the server has the correct file size. This confuses the person first, but even if they say to keep the server version, it never updates/changes the local home folder file. Which means when they double click on their desktop or whatever, it doesn’t open.
The main culprit of this issue is MS Office. However, other apps do it as well. You could say that my question is two fold. Does anyone know why it is doing this? And whether you know why or not, how do I fix it so that it always saves to the local home folder? Excel allows me to set the default location, but Word does not (go figure). If there is a global setting for either Office OR all of 10.4 apps that would be even better. Any help would be appreciated.
Keith
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