Going over quota during a login session can hose a person's MS Windows profile (as changes can't be written to disk). People should now be informed of their quota and limit in a hard-to-miss window under MS Windows. We hope that will clear up the majority of problems. In cases where it doesn't and a hosed profile results it can be fixed by following the steps below.
(Thu Feb 12 07:46:11 2009)
Joel has written a script to automate profile backup and deletion. It's in /fs/tedium/userscripts. Follow these steps:
As these aren't copies, they're moves, they should always work, even at maximum quota.
The MS Windows profile will be deleted and all files from the MS Windows Desktop and My Documents (and only those files) will be saved to directories in ~/From_Windows.
Now you should have a blank profile that will get populated with the default user profile of the first TCC MS Windows computer you log in to.
Note that you may find yourself back where you started if the machine you launch MS Windows on has a cached copy of your profile on it. Such copies are supposed to be erased as part of logging out but that doesn't always happen for some reason. If you bump into this problem you will need to repeat all the steps above and then try logging into a different machine (preferably one you haven't logged in to before -- see it does pay to know where you've been! -- if you can know you need to remember such things before knowing you do).
If you are missing things from the desktop then replace the default files in the Desktop directory with those saved above. Similarly for My Documents.