Offline Files Recovery

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:03:58 -0700

With the machine offline just browse to where it was.

Maybe Start, Run, \\server\share, for username
old_domain\username

BTW, files are in a hidden share named CSC, not that that
will help much

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello all,
>
>I have a Win 2000 laptop that was part of an NT domain.
>The system wasn't available to be disjoined from the
>domain before the DC was decommisioned, and was disjoined
>using the local admin account on the laptop afterward. No
>problems so far except -- it was using offline files for
>home directory synchronization, and as it turns out the
>user hadn't brought the system in to synchronize for over
>a month. It appears (since I can't find them on the hdd)
>that 2000 actually deletes the offline files cache when
>disjoined in this situation. Can anyone confirm this for
>me please? There is a file the user would desperately
>like to have, and I can think of no way to recover it.
>
>Thanks
>.
>