Re: Is there any significance to naming a folder "Lost and Found"?

Hello John H.,

If you talk about data folders on the harddisk drives. never heard about.
In AD UC you have builtin folder named this way but your description deson't
sound for Active directory.

Moving data to another folder on the harddisk will never be done automatically.
It requires maunal or scripted interaction. So even if anybody says, i didn't
do it, it wan't go automatic. There must be some interaction from someone.

If you have enabled logging on file/folder level you can find something in
the event viewer of the server. Otherwise you have no option to find who
has moved the data.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi, I have been removing old unnecessary data from a Windows 2003
> Server w/ SP2. I created a folder called "Lost and Found". If I was
> not entirely sure if I could remove a folder I moved it to the "Lost
> and Found" folder to be dealt with later.
>
> Here is the odd part. Overnight on three occasions folders, that
> obviously contained production data, have been moved into my new "Lost
> and Found" folder. I did not move the folders. None of our other
> staff have moved the folders. Is there some significance to naming a
> folder "Lost and Found" that I am not aware of? I have searched
> TechNet and Google and cannot find any significance to naming a folder
> "Lost and Found" in this context.
>
> I have checked all of our logs. I see no evidence of a malicious
> prankster. In the mean time I have renamed my "Lost and Found" folder
> to something else and setup auditing on access for the folder.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> John