Home Sync malfunctioning - Documents moving to the trash

Hello!
Many of my users are experiencing an issue with their Home sync function.  It is malfunctioning and causing documents from their Desktop to randomly disappear into the trash.  We are seeing this on both Lion and Mavericks.  For now we are simply disabling the function on all our users' machines.  Any thoughts??

So you are saying that on the server you see red circles on the folders on the server right?
That would be correct because the local admin on the server does not have access to them. That is how it is susposed to work. If you would like to have access to those folders you can add the local admin to the ACL of the users folder and then propigate it down to the rest of the folders. You can do that in server admin.
You will then be able to see if the data is getting to the folders on the server.

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    Last edited by akonerz (2010-02-12 01:49:26)

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