Loss of application folder after distribution

Question

I am having the same problem as detailed in TID 3193227 except that it is
ZfS 6.5sp2 not 7 and the "overwrite existing target folder..." is not
checked on any application distribution. Each time the distributions
are "pushed" via TED, the application folder structure is removed from the
distributed apps. Checked all distributed apps because I was told by a
MCNE that just one distribution with the box checked would cause that
problem. Has anyone seen this with ZfS 6.5sp2? Thanks!

Answer 1

> Hi Warren,
>
> The issue is caused by an option that was added as an enhancement, it
allows you to select if the folder needs to be overwritten or not. If you
use a folder object you typically don't want to overwrite but when custom
folders are used on the application object you do want to overwrite.
Unfortunately the default behavior that was chosen when this option was
added conflicts with how this worked in the past and as such it has
confused many admins using folder object. I have asked to change the
default for this option within the snapins as I think not overwriting the
folder (and wiping out others that share the same folder object) should be
the default. Not sure if this will be done at some point.
>
> For now, indeed distributing a single distribution that has overwrite
enabled could delete all other apps from the folder. Detecting the problem
distribution shouldn't be too difficult as that's the application that is
in the folder. The unfortunate thing is that to re-populate the folder
object you either need to fill the folder object manually or re-extract
the other app distributions.
>
> Regards,
> Ron
>
Thanks Ron
The re-extract is what I was thinking after my last post because the
manual method is getting old! Thanks for confirming what I was thinking
but implementation in a public school system will be tricky! But that is
for me to solve. Thanks again.