Offline file snafu. Please help. need to recover files.

[Guest]

I have a laptop that used to have a folder synchronized to a network drive.
This way I could access many of my commonly used files on the road. Anyway,
I had used this laptop on the road almost exclusively for several months and
wanted to turn off synchronization (I didn't need the laptop files on the
network drive or vice versa). When I turned off synchronization, all the
previously synchronized folders on my laptop disapeared. I can't find the
folders or any of the data! I assumed that de-linking them (or whatever)
would stop synchronization but would leave me with the files I had on the
laptop. I did not expect (and there were no warning messages!!) that the
previously synchronized folder would dissapear.

While I haven't been able to find the folders or data, I've noticed that my
free disk space hasn't gone up, leading me to believe that the data is in
there somewhere.
Any tips on how to recover? Thanks!

 

[WhiteZin2000]

If I remember correctly, sync'ed files are stored in the Client Side Cache
(CSC) foler in the %systemroot% location (usually c:\windows\csc\). This
folder is hidden so you'd have to enable 'show system files' in order to see
it. However, the contents of this file are not usually readable except by
the folder sync appliction. You may be able to 'see' the files if you
re-enable syncronization, but then again - you may reinitialize the CSC
cache and delete its' contents. I suppose that ensuring you have a recent
backup of the data at this point is not worth mentioning Other than
contacting Microsoft on this one, I can't find any relevant solution.

Cheers!

 

[WhiteZin2000]

Follow up to reply: Check out Microsoft KBArticle ID : 884739
for the 'CSCCMD' tool Cheers!