Re: Data catastrophe - desperate.

I wonder if you deleted them from your offline folders, not realizing that
the delete gets propagated to the server. If you really need those files, an
undelete program may recover some of them.

Gregg Hill

"br" <brianNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23XRB1yRsFHA.3264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'll check the monitor emails. At least that might tell me when it
> happened.
>
> As far as not moving over, I didn't actually "Move" them. I copied them
> then verified they were complete, then deleted the old copies.
>
> The more I think back on it, the more I think it has to have something to
> do with the offline folders thing.
>
> "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message news:OygbCENsFHA.912@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I would make sure that you don't have the 'fatal finger' syndrome where
>>the files didn't just get moved over.
>>
>> Look in your archives of daily monitoring emails... do you see a change
>> in drive space used?
>>
>> If no, they are still there somewhere.
>>
>> br wrote:
>>
>>>Recently installed an SBS 2k3 server in the house here. The data drive is
>>>a software RAID 5. Making shadow copies every few hours.
>>>
>>>Moved my My documents on to the server, including My Pictures. In My
>>>Pictures is a folder structure that contained YEARS of my family
>>>pictures. It moved over just fine. I verified after it was done.
>>>
>>>Sometime, more than a week ago, something decimated my pictures. The
>>>entire directory structure is there in tact. there are several dozen
>>>folders in there and there are sub folders in some of those. Someting
>>>went in alphabetical order deleting pictures, and for some reason stopped
>>>at folders starting with the letter R or above. New pictures added in the
>>>last week folders with lower letters are still there.
>>>
>>>None of the shadow copies have the pictures in them, my tape doesn't have
>>>the pictures in them, and the CD I made a month ago is unreadable.
>>>
>>>Is there some "feature" that could have done this? Perhaps Offline
>>>folders? When I first moved over My Docs XP took it upon itself to mark
>>>it as an offline folder. Later on, I turned off offline folders
>>>completely, but I am sure that I have looked at some of those pictures
>>>since then.
>>>
>>>No other data seems to be affected, and it doesn't seem to be just random
>>>since we are talkng about gigabytes of data, not jsut a few random files,
>>>and the loss went in a very specific order.
>>>
>>>I'm stumped about what happened and what to do to keep it from happening
>>>again.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> An open letter to the Security Community::
>> http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/12/12/23540.aspx
>
>


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