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July 25, 2012 at 09:37 AM
rhythm_tech

TEMP users File recovery

by rhythm_tech . Updated 13 years, 10 months ago

I have a user that was recently migrated from Domain A to Domain B. In this process his PC experienced an error and he was logged in as a TEMP user. He immediately found that his my docs and desktop files were missing. He found that they were indeed in his original user profile. So he began importing them into the “TEMP’ users profile. This was last Thursday.
Four days later he logs in and all his files in My Docs are missing. The TEMP user he was logging in as is now gone with all of his files.
Is there any way to recover files saved into a TEMP user profile once the regular profile has been loaded properly and the TEMP user is removed by the system?

I have run a complete file recovery on the drive and it finds no reference to a TEMP user ever existing. There are no files to recover since windows has no history of the user. I attempted to restore the PC back to Friday when the TEMP user was in use, but the restoration did not include a TEMP user, only his normal user account folders.
This error has caused years

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