Re: Data catastrophe - desperate.

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No, I definitely didn't do that. When I ralized that the folder had been set
to offline, I just turned off offline folders. I don't use them for anything
and the whole point of moving the files was to free up hard drive space.

Something just went wrong somewhere.


"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>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
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>> 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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