HOW TO: Restore a User Profile in Windows 2000
SUMMARY
This step-by-step article describes how to restore a user profile as well as the following user profile items:
- Documents
- Desktop settings
- Favorites
- Cookies
My problems with Adobe’s backup finally caught up to me. The problem occurred when Photoshop Elements was insistent about backing up my photos. I told it to back up my catalog to the My Documents directory. The My Documents directory is redirected to the file server so it should have plenty of space. I forgot that I have offline access to those files and my computer would synchronize with the file server at some point. The real problem was that I did not know that I had a video in the Album catalog. The reason the catalog backup was taking a lot of time and disk space was because it was backing up a several gigabyte video file. I had killed the backup a couple of days ago when it was taking so long. When I logged off my computer it attempted to synchronize with the file server and copy a bunch of file from the file server to my computer. It used up all of my diskspace before failing. I logged back on and the operating system created a new profile for me because I had so little disk space. Now I was screwed! My settings were no longer associated with my userid so many things did not work(e.g. Internet access). I eventually got things working again but it was ugly. Today I was finally able to make some headway researching this problem and found this article. I am going to know a lot more about profiles by the time I finally fix this. I will probably try and clean up the orphan profiles before I put this one to bed.