hopefully this is the forum for this issue as i couldn't find a clear fit as to where to place it.
I have a Windows XP client where the user, being ignorant of such things, was working offline for quite a while. months apparently.
The user amassed quite a few documents in their My Documents folder, all offline.
In this Active Directory based network the path to the Documents folder is abstracted via a domain DFS namespace.
The server that originally held all the users' My Documents folders was eventually decommissioned after all the files were replicated to another file server while maintaining the same DFS namespace path.
this user continued working even though they were offline and one bright morning they logged on and they couldn't find their files anymore.
when the offline files folder is opened you can see the user's files listed and they show as either "only local copy exists" or as "local copy data has been modified"
Trying to restore these files by copying them out of the offline files folder results in an error stating that: "Can't read from source file or disk."
is there any way that these files that seem to exist only in the local offline files cache to be recovered?
thanks in advance!
Ted S. Antonakis