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Posted by Steven L Umbach on September 14, 2005, 10:09 pm
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I have not had that much experience with offline files but I did a bit of
digging on Google and found they are not stored in the user profile but in a
hidden fodder named csc in the system folder and that the files are not
stored in normal format. Below is a link to a past newsgroup posting about
recovering offline files that may help you recover your files. --- Steve
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win2000.general/browse_thread/thread/ef84d85b35202ac7/fac654e036690634?lnk=st&q=recover+offline+folder+files&rnum=7&hl=en#fac654e036690634
Seaver" Jul 24 2003, 10:11 pm show options
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 03:09:53 GMT
Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2003 10:09 pm
Subject: RE: recover offline files -help
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Dear Blaine,
Thank you for your posting.
According to your post, you wonder how to recover offline files.
If I have misunderstood your concern please don't hesitate to let me know.
1. The Offline Files (CSC or Client Side Caching) cache and database folder
stores all the contents of Offline files. You may firstly access Folder
Options => View, check the "Show hidden files and folders" option.
After that, access C:\WinNT\CSC folder, you will find sub folders labeld
d1,d2,d3,.. etc. Locate the files by their corresponding files data size,
time stamp and types. You may copy them to a temporary location, and then
rename the file to its correct name and extension, so that they can be
opened as normal.
2. Restoring the Offline Files cache to its prior contents, and especially
replacing it with that from another system can result in Offline File usage
anomalies and should this be encountered, the cache should be completely
reset and rebuilt manually using the following article:
230738 How to Restart the Offline Files Cache/Database
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=230738
Hope it help!
Sincerely,
Seaver Ren
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation
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>
> A laptop was on OLDDOMAIN.LOCAL it had a P: Drive that was mapped to a
> OLDSERVER\SHARE and set to Make Available Offline. The MY DOCUMENTS folder
> was redirected to the OLDSERVER but also available offline. If the laptop
> was disconnected from the OLDSERVER network all files on the P: Drive and
> in 'My Documents' were available locally on the laptop.
>
> I moved the laptop to NEWDOMAIN.LOCAL. I went into Documents and Settings
> to copy the offline files from the OLDPROFILE.OLDDOMAIN to the
> NEWPROFILE.NEWDOMAIN. Much to my surprise there is no 'My Documents'
> folder in the OLDPROFILE.OLDDOMAIN folder. I cannot locate any of the
> files that were offline from the P: Drive. Where did all those files go?
> Can I get them back?
>
> I have reformated the server and it is now the PDC for the NEWDOMAIN.LOCAL
> so I don't have access to the server (OLDSERVER) and to the files that I
> thought were backed up on the Offline folders on the laptop. There is
> another domain controller that is the PDC for OLDDOMAIN.LOCAL. If I put
> the laptop back into the OLDDOMAIN with the same user account would I be
> able to see those offline folders again even though the OLDSERVER has been
> reformated?
>
> Is there any way to gain access to those offline files that were on the
> laptop before I put it into the NEWDOMAIN.LOCAL?
> Thanks,
> Kristian
>
>
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