Group Policy deleted All Users Document on Redirect

[Guest]

Ah.. Please help.

After the initial setup I instituted group policy on the server to redirect
My Documents to the users personal drive on the server. U: .. which worked
well for most users since all their data is now on their U drive; however a
laptop user who already logged on but group policy had not been applied had
all their documents on the laptop C drive in the usual Userprofile\My
Documents , when the user logged on again connected to the network the group
policy was applied and it overwrote or disappeared all the documents that
were there and he's left with an empty directory..the same as what was in his
U drive. How can I get these files back?
Please respond that I can , otherwise I'm in big trouble , he has no recent
backup.

Alanah

 

[Ken Hiatt [MSFT]]

I could be mistaken, but I suspect his files are still safe and sound on his
hard drive.

Try opening a command window and navigating to where the documents used to
be, probably something like "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My
Documents". If they are indeed there, you can do "start ." to get an
explorer window from that location and then copy the files to the server U:
drive.

Ken