Windows Server 2003 Synchronize Not Sticking

Posted by lkessler on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by lkessler
Published on 2010-02-03T00:21:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 2:03 UTC
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We have a Windows Server 2003. It had Raid running on 2 disks. One disk failed and the Raid Controller failed. We replaced the disk and controller and restored everything. No data was lost.

The users of that server found that there were a number of directories that appeared empty. We found that from their machine, we could right-click on the directory and select "Synchronize" and the files in the directory would now be visible to them.

However, when opening Internet Explorer and browsing the web and ftp'ing to a web site, the files in the directory would vanish. We would have to "Synchronize" them again to get them to reappear.

What is going on to cause this need to Synchronize and then re-Synchronize again?

What do we need to do to fix this so that the directories are permanently visible?

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