This issue has been annoying my users for several months now and I have tried all that I can think of to resolve this or even replicate it, so I'm posting here to see if anyone has any thoughts. Here's the situation. We just installed new Windows 2008 R2 servers. Our users are running Windows 7. In a nutshell -- once in awhile when a user copies a files to a folder another user will not be able to see the files that were just copied. If I look in the folder from the computer that copied the files they will be there. I can go to another computer and see them, but this one user doesn't. It isn't just a single user. This will happen to just about all of our users. If the person that is having trouble seeing the files waits 5 to 10 minutes, most times they will show up or if they reboot their computer they will then see them. Here is what I've tried without success in getting the files to show:
- I've tried press F5 in explorer.
- I've tried accessing the folder via a mapped drive.
- I've tried accessing the folder via UNC path.
- I've tried disconnecting the drive and remapped it.
- I've tried accessing the a specific file that isn't showing. For example: If I can see from another computer there should be a file abc.pdf I'd enter \\server\share\abc.pdf and it tells me the file isn't there.
- I've tried re-running our logon script. (which mostly just un-maps all drives and re-maps them based on AD.
I don't know what else to do. 98% of the time the files will be there. Once or twice a week this will happen to a user. And in most cases 5 to 10 minutes the files will just show up on their own. I have see where after more than an hour they didn't show and only could be found after a reboot.
Any thoughts or suggestions I can try?