File sync?

spud17

This relates to a work PC, I'm the closest to an IT department because I can do slightly more than turn it on, but I'm stumped.

The PC is in the site office, we're sub-contractors, it's about 9mths old running Win7 Home Premium (64-bit), Office 2010, AutoCAD 2010 etc.

The employee that had it from new, and set it all up, has left the country.

The new guy has been using it for a few weeks and has noticed that when saving some documents, they are saved in 2 places,Documents and Pictures.
There seems to be no pattern to which type of documents are saved in this way, and it doesn't happen every time.
When he deleted the ones in Pictures, the ones in Documents also deleted.
This suggested to me some sort of syncing, I've had a look in Sync Center, and there is nothing set up.
Also nothing appears to be shared in any way.

I'm not familiar with Office 2010 or AutoCAD to look there for a setting.

Anybody with a clue what is happening?

santer_2

Is it this?

http://www.gmayor.com/SaveInTwoPlacesAddIn.htm

Or

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp

spud17

It's more like the first example
The only thing is, that shows a prompt, but I *don't* think anything like that is coming up.

I'll have a look at the add-ins the next time I'm in the office.

I have found THIS, however I'm sure in my case CAD drawings are also being saved in 2 locations.

MoneySavingUser

I would assume the windows 7 libraries function is doing this - maybe they are misconfigured to have documents in the pictures library:

http://lifehacker.com/5464350/get-to-know-windows-7-libraries-inside-and-out
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-7-libraries-%E2%80%93-and-why-you-want-them/
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/libraries

spud17

MoneySavingUser wrote: »

I would assume the windows 7 libraries function is doing this - maybe they are misconfigured to have documents in the pictures library:

http://lifehacker.com/5464350/get-to-know-windows-7-libraries-inside-and-out
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-7-libraries-%E2%80%93-and-why-you-want-them/
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/libraries

Thanks, I've already had a quick look at the libraries, but couldn't see anything obviously wrong.

TBH it was the first thing I looked at, because of the range of types of documents affected, not like it was e.g Word alone.

I'm going to print out the first link and investigate further.
I must admit, although I've had Win7 for 18mths myself, I've never really checked out all the Library menu options.

esuhl

Could some program/script/macro be creating links to the files (see URLs below)?

http://ipggi.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/windows-file-junctions-symbolic-links-and-hard-links/

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/

Toxteth_OGrady

Might have had Symlinks or Junctions created. This might help:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ntfs_links_view.html

paddyrg

Could it be strange environment variables for 'my documents' alias or similar on one or other machines?

spud17

I had 15 mins at breaktime to have a look.

As suggested earlier, I've rechecked the libraries, as #4, and all seem to be in order. There are no extra locations showing in any of the libraries.

esuhl and Toxteth_OGrady, I'll check, but I don't think anyone capable of using such tools has been near the computer, also I don't see the need to do anything like that.

I also had a look at addons in Office and again nothing showing there.

I see that MS Live Essentials has been installed, I think there is a sync feature in that.

But whilst looking at what else may have been installed, I see that Norton has been partly removed and replaced with MSE.
The Alot toolbar has also been installed.

Time to leave well alone, and concentrate on my 'proper' job.:)