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Copper Contributor

Sep 17, 2019

Original File Location

Hi Everyone, I have a user within the organisation that has moved a file from a folder to a newly created folder. They seem to have lost track of where they had originally transferred the fil...

Iron Contributor

Sep 17, 2019

Hi Dwayne05

Windows Server can provide auditing on files and folders to track who has create/moved/deleted a file or folder, but this needs to be set up beforehand and can't be done after the fact.

If you have auditing enabled on your shares, then you need to check the event log for 4660 and 4663 IIRC.

If you don't, then I'm afraid I don't have any advice. There is a document at https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/How-to-enable-File-and-af674be4 that has information on setting this up in future.

Dwayne05
Copper Contributor
Sep 20, 2019
This is great, I am reading through the PDF. I'm going to take have a look at whether this has been set up.

Thanks
Leon Laude
Iron Contributor
Sep 19, 2019
Hello HidMov,

Auditing is one option, but you'll need to have Active Directory audit logging enabled
(https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2017/03/29/step-by-step-enabling-advanced-security-audit-policy-via-ds-access/)

Other methods are:

Shadow Copies (Previous Versions), but this also needs to be configured and enabled.
Backups, browse older backups and search for the moved folder and you should see where it was originally located.

Best regards,
Leon
- Dwayne05
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 20, 2019
  Thanks for your response.
  
  So would this give me some sort of a log of all objects modified and display it in event viewer?
  
  Thanks