WTF is wrong with my AD account
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What am I looking at and for?
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"ready for first sync" suggests you haven't synced at all. Hit the sync all button to kick it off.
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I've done this before but never systematically.
It is 1:41pm and I clicked the button:
It is now 1:45 and the bar hasn't moved:
Probably because:
And yet, I am on the network...
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Your "sync all" is now "stop all" so it looks like it's running, just very slowly. If you can run using a cable rather than wireless (if not already) that will help. Do you know the volume of files you're trying to sync?
Windows' detection of when you're online has always been plop, it shouldn't matter if you're doing things manually.
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Status is pending, though.
2:33: no change.
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It seems clear to me that you have not rebooted enough today.
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In case you're not trolling, I just did a reboot, then hit the button again. Still went into a pending state.
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Have you tried contacting your local friendly IT dept?
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You guys are localler and friendlier ;)
I mean I can put in a ticket, but I don't expect much.
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if i might suggest the use of an alternate sytem such as Google Drive, Dropbox or Skydrive?
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SkyOneDrive
Because someone might confuse cloud storage with a British satellite TV broadcaster and ISP, apparently
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..... right. for once it was the brits and not the muricans that were copyright trolls
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for once it was the brits and not the muricans that were
copyrighttrademark trolls
And let's be honest, BSkyB is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and he's a cnut.
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And let's be honest, BSkyB is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and he's a cnut.
I thought he was American by way of Australia, not Danish.
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all three listesd are free for personal use so long as you have < ~5GB of things to sync.
of course corporate might throw a wobbler depending on what you're syncing...
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all three listesd are free for personal use so long as you have < ~5GB of things to sync.
of course corporate might throw a wobbler depending on what you're syncing...
Note: doing things for an employer doesn't normally fall under personal use
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yeah, I don't generally move corporate documents outside the network if I can help it. Also we're probably talking around 8GB of docs
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that too.
though google/dropbpx/microsoft are unlikely to call you out on that so long as you're the only person utilizing the sync service.
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So I'm now working out of my network drive, and I have offline sync on, but it keeps telling me I'm offline all the time, and when I access the drive from another machine, I only see some of my files, not all.
WTF?
Are you by chance running Windows 7 OS with Server 2008 being where your user files are?
If so, there is a messed up problem involving that combination which is known by Microsoft, your symptoms are in line with that. There is a hotfix and a Group Policy update required to fix it, and I'm not even sure if it works (experimenting with that myself, but can't focus due to another project sucking up all my time/energy right now.)
If you can confirm the OS I'll scrounge up the link for you tomorrow.
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I'm on Windows 7. I don't know what the server is. The help desk said
Your files get out of sync when you get disconnected from the vpn. Look at hte conflicts. Go to you my documents and right-click on the files, and synchronize from there.
My sync is still pending and the drive says it's offline when I'm on the LAN.
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They're assuming you have conflicts, as I did. You haven't got that far yet, you need to do the initial sync before you can have a conflict.
Just out of interest, what hoops would you have to jump through for someone to just take a look?
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I could walk over with my coffee mug and ask him WTF he meant. I'm kind of in a pissy mood today though. I'd be rough on the poor sap.
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He wasn't in, but his team lead was, and his team lead was all, "wtf, we need to solve your wireless issues". So he's installed driver updates and instructed me to run Windows Updates that apparently stopped being pushed out automatically a while ago, when did THAT change? anyway. He thinks this new driver will help. So whatever.
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"wtf, we need to solve your wireless issues".
hmm... sounds like he was more help than the other IT guy.
hmm.... if it's wireless.... is there a LAN port you can plug the laptop into and get the intial sync done on the LAN? maybe windows is refusing to do the intial sync over wifi due to the size of the sync?
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I have been docked, it didn't help. He also says we don't support sync because sync is a POS that never works, so I should turn that off and just work online, which I'll be able to do if my wireless issues are stable.
Also the server with the files on it is a 2012 server.
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I have been docked, it didn't help.
well there goes that idea.
sync is a POS
yes, yes it is.so I should turn that off and just work online,
which you would do ifmy wireless issues are stable.
oh. yeah. that.
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also it won't let me turn it off. Says I don't have permission. This is my fucking machine, I'm a fucking admin, what the fuck permission do I need!
Oh look, I found a global toggle. Next time I reboot it'll be off.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
IT LOST ALL THE FUCKING CHANGES I MADE IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS
FUCK THIS.
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IT LOST ALL THE FUCKING CHANGES I MADE IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS
well shit.....
that's not good. Any change of source control rescuing any of it?
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fat fucking chance.
The code changes I did were in a different location because they're in source control anyway.
But those powershell scripts I was working on? Gone. My powerpoint for next week? Gone. My spreadsheets? Gone.
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Shadowcopy?
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Shadowcopy?
there's an idea.... if it's enabled you should be able to get the things back from that.
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I'm on Windows 7. I don't know what the server is. The help desk said
Your files get out of sync when you get disconnected from the vpn. Look at hte conflicts. Go to you my documents and right-click on the files, and synchronize from there.
My sync is still pending and the drive says it's offline when I'm on the LAN.
You and/or your IT team may find this article enlightening:
It's not you, it's Microsoft. It's a in its own right, worthy of its own sidebar.
This is a warning as to what could happen to any locally cached files if they remake or redirect your user drive on the network.
EDIT: Also, this might apply:
EDIT 2 (I keep adding as I find areas that apply to my environment):
In Windows Server 2008 the path to the policy that needs to be enabled is:
Computer Configuration Policies Administrative Templates Windows Components Windows Explorer Verify old and new Folder Redirection targets point to the same share before redirectingThat and the hotfix should prevent this from happening (again).
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This is a warning as to what could happen to any locally cached files if they remake or redirect your user drive on the network.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
IT LOST ALL THE FUCKING CHANGES I MADE IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS
FUCK THIS.
Too late.
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Did you check C:\Users\Yamikuronue\Documents in case the redirect happened after files got stored there?
I've seen users rediscover their "lost" files in this location before, when the network redirect started working, but wasn't initially working at all.
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It looks the same there.
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Argh!
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To clarify: I didn't move my My Documents directory, I added the new location to my Documents library and moved the files out of My Documents
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Probably a good idea.
You could also try Recuva: https://www.piriform.com/recuva
If your drive hasn't overwritten the locally deleted copies yet, you may still be able to salvage some of them. May take an hour or so to run the utility to get a full scan.
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eh. I think the trauma was worse than the actual data loss tbh. I can redo the powerpoint for next week, and I'm in the habit of working mostly from cloud locations like our Sharepoint server anyway, so really, it's the powershell script that I've just about finished recreating that hurts.
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Still worth running Recuva, just in case ;)
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....AFTER I finished recreating the powershell script
I remember that in order to run the script on the server for a test, I copied it to a second network location.
Where it still is
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I was thinking Recova could get the script. But since you had a copy elsewhere, it's not an issue