'My Documents' contents missing after logging into domain

From: Gabriel (_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/13/05 

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 20:23:02 -0700

I have a problem and i seriously need advice :

I have migrated a workstation from workgroup to domain. I have created the
new domain profile when i logged in as the domain user. Then i logged into
this workstation with a local administrator account to copy the old local
profile to the new domain profile.

When copying the user profile, i found that it was taking too long and My
Documents folder had 10GB of data in it. So I moved 'My Documents' folder to
another location and copied the profile again to shorten the time. Later when
the profile has been copied, I moved that 'My Documents' folder into the new
domain profile.

Next, I log in as the domain user. I check My Documents and it is empty. I
checked the hard disk capacity and it has gained an additional 10GB! So i
assume that the files have been deleted. I have searched for the files but to
no avail.

How could this happen? Has this ever happened before? And are there any ways
to rectify this problem?

Any help is deeply appreciated. The user has his life's work gone.

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