Recover Offline Files and Folders for Vista / Win 7
After moving over several systems from an old SBS2003 domain to a new SBS2011 Essentials server, one user noticed that there were several files missing from their documents. To be more accurate, the files were there but they were very old versions of the file, not the current one they had been working on.
After checking the server and the workstation, no other versions of the file were found. Since the old domain used to redirect the “My Documents” folder to the server and use Offline Files, I figured the current version was probably in the offline files on the computer and had never re-synced with the server when the migration was done.
Getting access to this was easy using a Ubuntu live CD to boot up Ubuntu without installing on the workstation. This gives you access to the drive…you can then go to the \Windows\CSC folder and drill down to the domain & username you want to get the files for. Then just copy the files out to another folder on the drive. Reboot back into Windows and you have access to all the files from the Offline files cache.