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Am I missing something, or is the HPE 1950 a "managed smart switch" - therefore it's only capable of static routing and that screenshot isn't related to that. Are there any settings for RIP? They're barely suitable as baseline edge switches let alone a core. Do you not have a proper router/firewall in place for instance from your ISP?

None of them have it installed on any device other than their staff laptop - we're trying to see if we can replicate the issue and that includes on a non-domain joined machine.

Indeed, thanks. Google support is still being less than helpful, and we've even had an awesome 3rd party expert have a look and all agree something is amiss. Going over everything with a fine toothed comb at the moment. (insert certain appropriate Spaceballs GIF and comment here) A typical "deleteonreboot" file appears to be relating to old versions: Some however seem a little different:

Hi, Quick favour please! If using the Google Drive app so you get G: drive (or whatever you've mapped it to) on your devices, could you please peruse C:\Program Files\Google\Drive File Stream and let me know if you have a "deleteonreboot" file? We're still trying to resolve our magically deleting files issue. This file appears present on most machines, however on a couple of the ones we're having issues with, the file contains some lines other than what I'd expect. I don't know the behaviour of this file, but I assume it's to tidy up after updates and should delete the files listed therein. The "bad" machines have the root folder listed. This might be something of nothing but would like to see if others have the same? Many thanks

Performance - a quick sync, for example if you need to manually assign a user to an address or something, that's a half an hour endeavour and is no quicker for one user than it is for 50. Always found Wonde's support quite good however, so can't knock that.

Edusync is the slowest moving thing on the planet alongside students in corridors at lesson changeover time and pensioners in supermarket aisles!

A common approach is to use a shared drive that the cover users have access to. Therein, create folders for date and class codes inside with the necessary files, and document that for the cover staff to get on quickly

Bizarre is certainly a good description! I can only assume that a certain set of circumstances has triggered it, but without knowing what they are, we're powerless to correct or even pause it short of removing the drive app. The worst thing about it is Google's support (or lack of). Would anyone happen to have a handy escalation contact please?

This is the nearest I have to an "answer" which is provided by myself - a reference to file mirroring occurring even though it's in streaming mode. It could be just language being used rather than actually mirroring files, but in this case it's exactly 525 files that went walkabouts this morning for that user.

I know, but as I've said, Google have confirmed the issue. Staff don't have the ability to install 3rd party software, plugins, extensions etc, and even if they could it's unlikely they'd all suddenly get the same dodgy one. And of course causation/correlation - lots of people are having issues that may fit the bill, so it could be a wider issue but not many others have gone into it in as much detail. Lots of possibilities, and I'm chomping at the bit to see what Google come back with. If it's me, I'll literally be handing in my resignation the moment I see evidence!

Stream mode only stores cached files for frequent use, it doesn't store anything else nor does it (or nor should it) mirror files, hence this shouldn't have an impact.

It's my drives not shared. And yes, that was obviously the first thing that came to mind, however it's also possible that the problem like last time is getting hugely covered up. Google jumped on the November issue like mad which is why there's so little out there even from the media outlets that covered, compared when it actually hit. But still, applying some logic, Google stream = only cached files stored, what behaviour should cause this? None.

Yeah, that would have been the first thing that came to mind, until it's lots of users at up to 15k files *each*. At a rough estimate we're up to around 120k in total and the only app involved is the Google Drive app for windows, so staff can make full use of a capable Office suite without resorting to the online shenanigans. Google themselves have confirmed an issue but radio silence for any concrete cause or resolution. The only thing that seems to kick this off are small changes to user profiles - enabling offline files specifically. A scenario that is neither rare or likely to kick off such a problem especially in streaming mode. And this is just user's own My Drive, not shared files.

Still ongoing. Google support is being absolutely diabolical - chased for answers every day last week then finally got a "we'll get you an answer 24-48 hours from now" on Friday. Still nothing as of this morning. 15k files deleted over the weekend. Manual restoration is all I've done for the last week, and we're absolutely sick of it. Clearly something we've done has kicked this problem off, but the fact we're streaming rather than syncing proves without doubt there's a problem with the soft. SLT rightly fuming (and have my back thankfully) and all at wits end Literally going back to encrypted USB storage for some, just to tide us over! Absolute joke

Word will do this without any extra software, and the results are usually a little better than the free sites you have to upload your wonderful data to for conversion, but it still falls over with formatting on tables etc. Interested to see if there's anything other than Acrobat that produces good results.

Don't forget it's not always a technical thing - giving a choice can be an important positive for some, even when the choice is an illusion

I believe the choice can be important, and there's little to no difference in keeping it installed. Yeah it's another set of GPO's to manage but usually once done, it's just done. Plus it can offer a little more flexibility to staff who may need more than one account open, and even despite them being very similar they are not identical and some sites do behave differently.

Well, blow me down with a feather - I did not know that!!

Just an M4 if memory serves me, same as the screws that hold the hard drives/SSD in. If you have 4 screws in the SSD, steal one of those

That has crossed my mind, but not as much as skids would cross my pants doing it Edit: Works well on a test user, just wondering why neither of the Google folks suggested it. Still too nervous to try it on live data

That article is only for recovering files that have been deleted from trash, not files which are currently sitting in trash. And yes, it was easy when you've come from an MS tenant where doing things like this on a per tenant, per domain, per group or per user context is a couple of clicks at most without any scripting. I've not been able to find any documentation for achieving the restoration of trashed files via GAM, if there's anything you're aware of it'd be really useful!

They've confirmed an issue and are investigating. In the meantime we're sat here trying to restore tens of thousands of files at Google's wonderful limit of a couple hundred at a time which noone has time for I don't understand how anyone can say this is a complete, usable product. I know MS isn't perfect but this sort of thing is just *easy*

Hi all, Last year, there was an issue with Google deleting files at will, apparently relating to a bug with the cache in the Appdata folder. We seem to be stumbling across this issue yet again, certainly at our school and possibly others. Files suddenly being moved to the users' Trash folder, audit logs showing they deleted them (they didn't). No deletion of profiles, possibly some changes made, but Google support have confirmed there is likely to be an issue which they are looking into. Is anyone else seeing this? Once or twice you may think people are accidentally deleting things, but this is definitely not the case It may be worth checking your tenants anyway, just to be sure!

I've set EWP for 2 schools and in both instances the requirement was just the no proofing tools. Neither were aware of the added bonuses, autosaves, header sheets, candidate & exam board info etc. Both instantly committed and absolutely love the amount of hassle and time it saves. Get a demo, put it in front of your exams officer and get an order in - value for money wise, you just can't beat it.

I agree! With the possible exception of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, although being animated that's a bit easier to get the right look and feel. Fallout however is exceptional. Yes a lot is CG, but it has clearly been done by people involved with or have spent a LOT of time in game. It's good enough that you could easily recreate the entire set in Fallout 4 settlements. I'm 4 in so far and absolutely feel like I've just put in another 100 hours into FO4, but the influence from the entire series is clear to see. There's a level of unexpected humour which is pretty much on par with the games - cousins and chickens, enough said there! Character wise - spot on. Lucy is extremely likeable and relatable and you can see the naivety you would expect from a vault dweller. The ghoul is absolutely awesome and the BoS just feels "right". I'm getting slight stormtrooper/Finn vibes from Maximus and not in any negative way. Thoroughly enjoyable!