Default File Locations

Situation:

User has 2000 Professional workstation connecting to a
stand-alone 2003 server share with a mapped drive.
Usernames and passwords are the same. Also running Office
2002.

Created a new drive map on the server to shared excel
files. The user wanted to have those files available
whenever he click "Open File". I set the "Defaul File
Location" in Excel's Options to the mapped network drive.
Upon doing this, when I click the open button, it
shows "My Documents" but "My Documents" is mapped to the
network share instead of pointing to his hard drive.
After changing this back from the mapped drive to this
local files - all of the files in his local "My Documents"
were gone. Whenever the the shortcut for My Documents was
changed to the mapped drive (by excel) it wiped all files
in his local MD directory - everything - nothing in
recycle bin - no where.

Why did excel map the My Documents shortcut to the shared
drive? Why, in doing so did it total wipe out all of his
local files?

Excel does not have the ability to "wipe files" from the users HD.

Is the user just a user or is he/she also an Administrator? How many user
profiles are now showing on the computer?





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: Situation:
:
: User has 2000 Professional workstation connecting to a
: stand-alone 2003 server share with a mapped drive.
: Usernames and passwords are the same. Also running Office
: 2002.
:
: Created a new drive map on the server to shared excel
: files. The user wanted to have those files available
: whenever he click "Open File". I set the "Defaul File
: Location" in Excel's Options to the mapped network drive.
: Upon doing this, when I click the open button, it
: shows "My Documents" but "My Documents" is mapped to the
: network share instead of pointing to his hard drive.
: After changing this back from the mapped drive to this
: local files - all of the files in his local "My Documents"
: were gone. Whenever the the shortcut for My Documents was
: changed to the mapped drive (by excel) it wiped all files
: in his local MD directory - everything - nothing in
: recycle bin - no where.
:
: Why did excel map the My Documents shortcut to the shared
: drive? Why, in doing so did it total wipe out all of his
: local files?