#11 Exactly what was NOT supposed to happen

By Sarah
So we had a scare at work on Tuesday this week. For months, my company has been talking about the process for moving all of our documents—personal and shared—from our C drives and LAN folders to our own SharePoint sites. I have a few LAN folders that I work in daily, along with a few other members of that team.
Now we’ve been told to “put our important documents in “migrate” folders and wait for further instruction"—(because they haven’t quite figured it out yet). Anyway, March 31 was a former cut-off date for this migration to happen. We’ve known for months now that the cut-off date has been pushed back several times, but I’ve been here long enough to know that I should probably back up my important stuff somewhere anyway. Too bad I didn’t do every folder…

Another part of our migration instructions were to only “clean up” the folders we were responsible for. A co-worker and I went through the 3 folders we use for our job a long time ago. However, our folders are quite a ways down the folder structure inside bigger folders, and exactly what I feared would happen sure did—someone moved our folder because they didn’t know what it was. After a few phone calls to the tech people to try to recover it and doing a little digging ourselves, we found the folders that we work out of EVERY DAY in a new folder called “(compound#) nonspecific docs.” Ok, they may not have been “specific” to whoever decided to move them, but they were specific to other people.
When you have many people working with files in an electronic environment, version control and document storage can be big problems.
 

2 comments so far.

  1. Itinerant Teacher 12 April, 2008 23:32
    I've often wondered about Sharepoint. From what I can tell, it has all the complications of a normal file server and all the complications of a web server. What I think that means is anything that normally could have messed up on the local network can now be messed up from anywhere in the world -- or something like that. Although I don't think that's how they say it in the brochure. ;-)
  2. Mary Alice Ball 21 April, 2008 15:58
    Ouch! I've been involved with similar moves and they are never without pain and regret.

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