DFS Replication, Users HOME folder - seems not to catch all files... any hints?

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Published on 2012-10-07T11:31:12Z Indexed on 2012/10/07 15:39 UTC
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I amm moving stuff out of a file Server. I am using DFS for that - the Folders are anyway in a DFS tree, so I can set up a replication temporarily, then drop the old Folder. Works nice, EXCEPT for the Folder containing the users home drives. Which, incidentally, is also the one I can not see all files in due to my permissions.

Small Setup. We have 159mb in the users directories, 1280 files, 133 Folders original.

The copy only has 157mb, 1269 files, 133 Folders.

Anyone knwos of a way to find out what files are missing? IS this a Problem (could be some Caching files that are regenerated). Users are all offline (weekend) ;) This is pretty much the last share - all others had exactly ZERO issues.

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