Hey, did you find your own files?
Hey, did you find your own files?
I have one person who is really bad at using a PC. He works here, but his computer is far away from us in Florida. Every single time I tell him to stop saving important stuff on his desktop because nothing gets saved automatically, he keeps doing it. Is there any way to move all of his folders to the server so they are safe? Or should we just make sure that when he closes the window, everything is copied automatically before he leaves? I know some things he saves are very important and I really want our company data not to be lost or me stuck with no choice because I already told him clearly. Thanks for any help you can give me here.
If your machine stops getting power from the network, it might not start up properly. You should set up a backup program to check in every few hours and save any files that changed on the server. Or you can write a simple batch file that does this copy thing automatically at night or just run it yourself when you want it done.
It all comes down to how well you've set up your computer network. Because he's using a remote connection, it wouldn't make sense to change where those user files are stored for him. Maybe just syncing his existing OneDrive account would work better than forcing any changes?
The thing you're talking about is called a roaming profile. Yes, that's possible, but no, it isn't a good idea for people working from home. As USAFRet mentioned, something like OneDrive sync or Google Drive sync is much better because they save your profile to the cloud instead of keeping it on one device only.
One thing i do at work is Resilio sync. You pick a folder you want to share, then choose another folder on another computer and it copies data back and forth. I have a folder on my D drive at work where anything i put goes to my home server too. So if i add something to that folder at home it gets copied to the folder on my D drive at work. On my main computer at home, i also use it to backup my steam library to another drive on my server. I have every steam game i own installed, just a little bit short of 6TB. Once a week i check and update all the games then turn on Resilio sync and backup everything to the server. It only sends new data so its not sending the full 6TB every time. I did it over the weekend and it moved just short of 90GB in 15min. The owner of the company was the same way, just saving things to his local computer or a thumb drive he left plugged in all the time. I ended up writing a batch script that would copy his desktop, my documents, and the usb drive over to the server every night. It would put the contents in a new folder every night and after a week would delete the oldest folder