My Documents are Missing!

[WillShakespeare]

Hi All,

I'm in a bit of a desperate situation here. One of our editors has been working at home the last two weeks.
While away, I have been changing the GP. You see, the other sys admin chap here had set synchronisation on, including folder redirection so that our My Docs folder always points to H:\ (net share). When this editor goes away, she makes changes, then comes back and synchronises.
Problem is that we don't need synchronising with local users (non-laptop), and we have been having problems with auto use of offline folders, etc., du to synchronisation, and apps were failing... so, first I turned off synchronisation. Now, I am playing with a test network to try and fix the problems we are having...
In the meantime...
Editor comes back and logs onto network... new GP is pushed to her machine, and the My Docs is connected to her H:\ drive, but with no synchronisation. SO that's okay, but then she looks on her hard drive for her two weeks worth of work, and can we find it??? NO!
We tried closing down and logging in locally with network unplugged, but now her My Docs just comes up with error that H:\ cannot be found... and all of her work is gone!!!
We have tried searches on all hard drive... looked in Docs & Settings first, but to no avail...
I am in really hot water over this, so whatever anyone can suggest... you would most likely be saving me from a formal procedure...

Thanks in advance,

Will

 

[GrnEyedLdy]

Could you edit the Folder Re-direction policy and check the box for: "Re-direct the folder back to the local user profile location when policy is removed. Then open the properties of the GPO and deny READ and APPLY to this 'editor'.

Perhaps things will be returned to their original location.

Shot in the dark...

Hope you can solve this one!

Patty

 

[SgtB]

Worse case scenario, try to scan the actual HDD for the files through DOS using an application like uneraser:

http://www.uneraser.com

This works as long as the hdd sectors the files were sitting on were not overwritten.

Try the local redirection first though. It doesnt really sound like the files were deleted, but you never know.

Good luck!