Hi all, I'm having issues with folder redirection on IE favourites. I am not sure which forum to post this in, so I have put it in the Windows forum and IE forum. Basically I am redirecting everyone's favourites folder to their network home drive using group policy. This seems to work most of the time, however on occasion, users are suddenly unable to save any new favourites, receiving an error which simply states "Unspecified error". They are still able to use existing favourites when the problem is occuring, but cannot save any new ones. The troubleshooting I've done so far leads me to believe that this occurs when sync centre (which manages the redirection) in Win7 is either in offline mode or slow link mode. I have checked permissions on the home drive folders - each user has full control over their own home drives. The policy for the folder redirection has also set the "exclusive rights" option to "disabled". We also redirect the users' Documents folder as well, which does not suffer any issues. Additionally, if you manually browse to your favourites folder through libraries, or by going to the home drive itself, the user can create files in there without a problem. This only seems to affect IE. Has anyone else encountered this and do they know of any way of rectifying it? Thanks. G

You are also in the WRONG forum here. There is no IE7 or IE8 in Windows 7! What operating system are you dealing with? You need to find the correct forum for your operating system!Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

As mentinoed in my post, we're running Windows 7! The thing is, it's a hard one to categorise, since it involves IE and Windows 7. The fault could lie with either product. Hence why I have posted in BOTH forums. Also there is IE7 and IE8 in Windows 7 actually. Most will have upgraded to IE9, but a lot of businesses havent, including us. I'd get your facts right and try reading my post before you answer tbh.

Negatory my friend. Maybe the very latest release install DVD with SP1 does, but the Enterprise version does not. Certainly not the MSDN install DVD/image that we have here! I should know this, as the computer I'm currently writing this on has IE8 installed and it is Windows 7 Enterprise. In fact the two Pro versions of Windows 7 I have at home dont have IE9 shipped with them. They come with IE8. I fail to see where you obtained this information on IE9.

There definitely is no IE7 in Windows 7. Windows 7 ships with IE8.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I see what you did there... _ Not sure why I put IE7 in my post title, you have me there. You did just edit your post though, making me look stupid, which is forum trolling of the highest degree!! Back on topic, any ideas on my problem?

Perhaps you should post in the networking forum since your situation does involve networking: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/threadsPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, Please take the ownership of the shortcut for a test. If the issue persists, youd better reset or reinstall Internet Explorer, then redirect the favorites. Here is an official article can be referred to. How to reset Internet Explorer settings http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 If the issue persists, you could restore the Internet Explorer by turn off and turn on the Internet Explorer feature in the control panel ->Programs and Features. Note: Before you restore internet explorer, please perform a system backup first and backup your favorites. Based on my research, you could add favorites folder or links using group policy. Another way is to modify the registry to change the path of the favorites folder. ( HKEY_USERs\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\favorites ) Hope that helps.

Hi, Please take the ownership of the shortcut for a test. If the issue persists, youd better reset or reinstall Internet Explorer, then redirect the favorites. Here is an official article can be referred to. How to reset Internet Explorer settings http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 If the issue persists, you could restore the Internet Explorer by turn off and turn on the Internet Explorer feature in the control panel ->Programs and Features. Note: Before you restore internet explorer, please perform a system backup first and backup your favorites. Based on my research, you could add favorites folder or links using group policy. Another way is to modify the registry to change the path of the favorites folder. ( HKEY_USERs\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\favorites ) Hope that helps.