Windows 7 home Premium /X64 There is a shared folder in this machine, windows share used for regular office documents, (word, excel, jpegs). None of the files are scripted or have a macro or auto created, none of it, just regular office documents. Every time a document is deleted via the windows share or from the PC directly, the files reappear. 1) Permissions for file sharing are correctly set, all the users have full permissions (read / write) 2) The folder has nothing special to it, it is writable by everyone, and it is impossible to delete a file form this machine 3) File restore, system restore have been disabled for the entire drive (started with the folder, but nothing works, so now we disabled the entire drive from restoring) We created a new folder called to delete folder so we move the files there and then delete them from the PC directly, and did not work either. We had the same setup with XP and not a problem for years. All clients are windows XP, there are NO Roaming profiles, the ONLY windows 7 machine in the network is the machine sharing the folder. The reappearing of the files affect all users, including the person sitting at the windows 7 machine. There are NO synchronization utilities installed, we had a Seagate backup and removed it as well. We Tried to use windows 7 backup, it filled the 700 gigs of external drive and it stop working. The wonders of windows 7.

Hi, please try to disconnect other pc form Window 7, and delete the files of share folder to see if the files will be recreated. It is a possible that you gives everyone with read/write permissions, there might be a XP user sync the shared files with Windows 7. Isolate the Windows 7 machine for a test. Because the files inherit the permissions from the original shared folder, while he/she moves the file to a newly created folder, the same symptom occurs. Or you can try to login with Clean Boot or Safe Mode for test. Regards, Leo HuangPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thank you for your note. There is no one using a sync ultility and delteing the share is out of the question -- we will be deleting all the work files. We re not using the default shares created or suggested by windows, we have created an independent folder c:\CompnayServerFiles where the files are saved. Then the folder was shared, the same way we have ever done wiht XP. Right click on folder, sharing, create a share, name the sahre, give #users and permissions to the share. Right now the permissions are read/write to authenticated users. Thank you!

I am having the same problem, did you get a fix? I have a directory and files on my file server, which I have shared and granted permissions so other laptops can access and use the data. I have tried deleting and changing the file structure, directories, deleting files but they all reappear. It's most vexing. This should not happen. All my PC's are on Windows 7.