Restrict Users to Delete files in Shared Foder

Question

_{Tuesday, August 6, 2013 9:16 AM}

Dear Friends

I have a share Folder. I want users to access it, create folders and files and edit them.  But restrict users to delete files and folders inside the shared folder

Any Solution?

M. Zubair Akhtar MCP+I, MCSE, MCTS, CCNA

All replies (3)

_{Wednesday, August 7, 2013 9:09 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

You could remove "Delete" permission for the folder. However it will stop user from renaming files and folders too.

Meanwhile please noticed that When you open Office documents, it will create temp files for editing. As user cannot delete files, the temp files created by Office programs will also not be deleted.  A workaround is to give Creator Owner – Delete permission so that temp file created by Office app could still be deleted by the person who access the file.

You could refer to the following thread to troubleshoot your issues:
User can save but not delete
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b7a8b44d-901b-4077-99eb-829b100f944e/user-can-save-but-not-delete

In additional, You can use Icacls tool to set the required permission and set the required ACL as per your own requirement.

Icacls
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525.aspx

Regards,

Mandy Ye

_{Tuesday, August 6, 2013 2:15 PM}

Check on these link please 

http://serverfault.com/questions/59445/how-to-restrict-users-moving-folders

http://serverfault.com/questions/142735/how-to-restrict-deletion-of-a-folder-on-ntfs-share-but-still-allow-modify-acces

Thanks.

_{Sunday, November 29, 2015 6:32 AM}

Thans sir, but let us know how can I remove delete permission? and what shuold I do when this folder or file reside in a server and shared also for the users?