Offline folders

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Hello,

One of our clients has a Windows XP Prof laptop. A few months ago he logged
on to a Windows 2003 SBS, with off-line folders (My Documents) enabled.
A few weeks later, off-line folders where disabled bij a GPO.
Last week, he logged on to the server once, he did some things, logged off
and went home with his laptop. At home he turned on his laptop and found out,
that My Documents was empty.
I checked out the folder c:\windows\csc. There are about 1100 files in this
folder, but they have no extension and weird names. I renamed one to test.doc
and was able to open th document.
Is there a way to "repair" this for all documents?

Kind regards,

Ard Westeneng
VH Automatisering
The Netherlands
 
Ard said:
Hello,

One of our clients has a Windows XP Prof laptop. A few months ago he
logged on to a Windows 2003 SBS, with off-line folders (My Documents)
enabled.
A few weeks later, off-line folders where disabled bij a GPO.
Last week, he logged on to the server once, he did some things,
logged off and went home with his laptop. At home he turned on his
laptop and found out, that My Documents was empty.
I checked out the folder c:\windows\csc. There are about 1100 files
in this folder, but they have no extension and weird names. I renamed
one to test.doc and was able to open th document.
Is there a way to "repair" this for all documents?

Kind regards,

Ard Westeneng
VH Automatisering
The Netherlands
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You aren't supposed to be opening up files from the cache that way - you'd
have to know what the file was created with, in order to rename it, but you
can rename *.* to *.doc , etc, in a command line even.

Did his files sync successfully to the server before the admins disabled
this?

Offline files is a curse, I tell you. I don't use it at all. There are
better options.
 
Thanks for your reaction.

There was no synchronisation to the server. What happened, I think, is that
according to the policy, offline folders was switched off, so the offline
folders on the workstation where deleted.
 
Ard said:
Thanks for your reaction.

There was no synchronisation to the server. What happened, I think,
is that according to the policy, offline folders was switched off, so
the offline folders on the workstation where deleted.
Ouch.
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