Happy New Year All I saw at my friends work that they had a synchronized (Offline) My Documents folder that resided on the server. I know that you can turn on Offline documents. I was wandering if this is also something set up in the Active Directory. I seems that the computer is using the one on the server then when they shut down it syncs back to the my documents on the local machine. The reason I would like to know 1. What this is called? I cant do Google searches for this because I don’t know how it works or what its called. 2. My friend downloaded some pictures of his Xmas party (wife and kids) to the instance on the server. when he shutdown it failed to sync because of a database file that was corrupt in the local my documents folder. Well because of the failure it or he lost all his pictures and his wife if totally on his back to find them. Anyone have any ideas where these could have gone? Thanks all. Michael

I don't know that it is called anything in particular. It sounds as if your friends computer is set up to use the server for the "Document & Settings" location (this inclued the "My Documents" folder). This is a common setup in many office environments. That way when the user logs onto any computer in the company all of their documents will be available. This does not require Active Directory. The "Offline" files are the ones that are stored on your friends computere, not the server. So that when your friend is not connected to the netowk he still has access ot his files. When rejoining the network any changes that were made would be synced back to the default location on the server. In this instance, if the files on the server were corrupted, then the files on your friends computer would also be corrupted. If the files were not synced to your friends offline files (because they did not sync) they could still be on the server. He will just need to boot up the computer while on the company network. If the files are corrupted there AND if the files were OK when first copied to the network, he can check with the admin at work to get the files from the first backup that was made after they were copied to the network. It's a shot in the dar, but a possibility. Michael J