Let me start by saying I knew better......
OK had this user, was moving to a different computer. He had a bunch of stuff in local workspaces. Mind you this is not ordinary production models, or even anything to do with product. Off the radar stuff. He was designing some simple carts and some jigs for production facility. Went I approached him about the move I said, "Be sure to upload anything not checked in." He can't, he said he tried, he basically used the same name for parts in several models configured differently, and kept saving new sizes in diff. workspaces. (bad practices, this is a MFG guy, not enginjeer). "Well not huge deal to lose them but I'd rather not" he says.
"Cant you just copy the local workspaces he" asks? He suggests copying the local cache in Roaming folder. I told him, not recommended, yada, yada, yada. But nothing to lose, so why not.
We try it, seems to work. He said all the WS were there. The old machine was redeployed, the local spaces taken out of his profile (for space issues) and copied to a separate drive for safe measure-Just in case. And his user profile was kept in tact. But now he comes back and says there tons of stuff missing, basically everything he created, that was not added to WS from CS.
We tried to copy the local cache folder from roaming back over to that original machine. Same results as his new machine, missing the parts.
Both machines were same OS win7 64, same user profile for the login guy.
Anyone have any guess where these parts are?? Aren't they encrypted in the cashe? I told him I'd ask. (I'm taking him for his word these parts ever existed in any WS). I have no way to know they ever did exist.
Thanks all,
Mark Steffke
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