Question

In your organization, each department has a folder on a shared drive. Your boss frequently copies the folder to his local computer to run reports. You have noticed that the folder for your department keeps disappearing from the shared drive. You discover that the folder isn't being deleted and often gets moved into a random, nearby folder. You suspect that coworkers in other departments are being careless with their mouse clicks while accessing their own folders on the shared drive and are dragging and dropping your department folder into other folders without noticing. How can you prevent this folder from being moved, but still allow it to be copied? What steps do you take?

Answer 1

Answer:

Use the Properties box of the folder to disable inheritance on the folder. Then, for all users except Administrators and SYSTEM users, open the Permission Entry for the folder. Click Show advanced permissions and remove the check mark for Delete. Apply changes and close all windows

Explanation:

In a situation where a folder is been moved, it is been deleted from its original or main location and when the ability of the users is been removed to delete the folder, the users are allowed to copy but not move the folder.

Therefore to set these permissions, the Properties box of the folder should be use to disable inheritance on the folder. Then, for all users except Administrators and SYSTEM users, Permission Entry for the folder should be open then go ahead and Click Show advanced permissions and remove the check mark for Delete. Apply changes and close all windows.

Answer 2

Answer:

You can possibly make it so that your co workers can not move folders. Ask your boss if he/she can make everyone content managers. This will make it so no one can move folders.