XP Profiles

[Dinobot2]

I am attached to a network and have a network profile on my PC. I deleted my username and password from the server and reentered my self again. When I did my old profile was gone and replaced with a new one. I still see the old profile sitting there and I was wondering, if there was anyway to get it back?
Although I temporally removed myself from the network, I still want my old profile back instead of having to copy and paste it to my new one.
I was wondering, if I deleted the dat file or copy the dat file from my new to my old will I be able to recover or is there another way of doing it?

 

[m33sta]

1.rename your new profile something else (original new profile name "jsmith" rename it "jsmimthold"
2. rename old profile "jsmith" and reboot.
this can be found in "documents and settings" I do the reverse of this at work to see if their are any issues with corrupt profiles.

 

[Dinobot2]

it didn't work. It just creates another profile with a different name.

 

[TheLad]

So if you log into your "new" account, it creates a different profile directory? In that case, best thing to do is to login as another user (not you, maybe the Administrator?), then copy the contents of your old profile directory into the diretcory the "new" account created (you can remove the current contents of the "new" directory before you start), then log into your "new" account and your profile should be there?

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[linney]

Copy local profile to domain profile
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[wolluf]

If your network is a domain, and yours is a domain logon, you could try copying the old profile to a folder on the server. Then set the roaming profile for your account to point to this folder in AD (permission will need to be correct). Then logon with new user - if the profile isn't corrupted, it should copy it down to the local machine (might be worth removing the current local profile for your new user before doing this).

If it works, you can turn off the roaming profile - as your user will just pick up the local copy (unless you want it saved back to server of course).