Tag: Windows

Files Be Gone

I noticed that some files were disappearing on one of the Servers the other day. A few people had noticed. And it finally happened to me. I was roaming through my ‘My Documents’ folder when I noticed that folders that shouldn’t be empty were.

Checking out the KnowledgeBase, I discovered that if your profile folder is the same as your home directory, then the server sometimes decides that the best thing to do is delete the files.

Although it turns out that if you use a subfolder in the home folder this resolves the problem.

I certainly hope so. I don’t think too many people will be impressed with files randomly disappearing…

Server 2003 Doesn’t Like My Tally

I’ve been having problems with the Tally 8006e and 8024 running on Windows Server 2003. On a couple of systems I’ve found that the drivers seem to knock out the Windows spool. Whenever it tries to print, an error message pops up saying Unable to create print job.

The fact that it doesn’t even seem to try was quite frustrating. Luckily I was fixing another problem on one particular server and needed to reboot. On startup I had a more useful message Spooler subsystem app has encountered a problem and needs to close. I should have really checked the system log, but this problem had been around for such a long time, I wasn’t sure if it would actually still be there.

So it was with some fortune that I managed to find this new message on the KB article 810894.
Follow the instructions and it will remove the printer drivers and allow you to add new printers afresh.