Mobile user’s trash and deleted desktop items keep coming back

[eyoung123]

I have a synchronized mobile user (Home directory on Xserve synced with a local Home) that cannot get rid of trashed items… each time she logs back in there is an extensive re-sync and everything on her desktop that was trashed comes back. This ossurs if you choose “Home Local” or “Network Home” as the primary source. It also occurs on a different system with her account. I went into the account and manually removed a folder that kept coming back and it stayed dead. but if I try this on any system logged in as her, the deleted item will come back.

I looked at her account and it seems no different from her fellow users.

Note that I recently inherited the existing setup here and am a serious OD n00b.

[eyoung123]

And now it’s working….. trashed items now stay trashed, and the sync seems to be running normally (only syncing items modified since last login)

but I did absolutely nothing to cause this change!

anyone know where (or if) the log for networked users lives?

[hjenkins]

Look out for any invisible files beginning with “.fstemp*” they cause all sorts of problems with PHD’s.

[mikemchargue]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: eyoung123[/u][p]I have a synchronized mobile user (Home directory on Xserve synced with a local Home) that cannot get rid of trashed items… each time she logs back in there is an extensive re-sync and everything on her desktop that was trashed comes back. This ossurs if you choose “Home Local” or “Network Home” as the primary source. It also occurs on a different system with her account. I went into the account and manually removed a folder that kept coming back and it stayed dead. but if I try this on any system logged in as her, the deleted item will come back.

I looked at her account and it seems no different from her fellow users.

Note that I recently inherited the existing setup here and am a serious OD n00b.
[/p][/QUOTE]

This issue pops up peridoically with us. First, log delete the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.homesync.plist
/Library/Managed Preferences

Then log in and select either portable home or network home. Let the full sync happen. Delete the files that you don’t need. Login or logout to invoke a sync. Everything should work again.

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