WSS Recover for Microsoft Sharepoint & MSDE

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I can see that a lot of people (like me) have used SharePoint Services (SPS) with the MSDE and have hosed the system. Then they need to recover, or extract, the documents that are shared in the Shared Documents on SharePoint. Aha! If you still have MSDE database files, I can help. Witness the wss-recover.asp file, version 0.1.

Download the .zip, and unzip it into the root directory of your IIS webserver. For most folks, this is C:\inetpub\wwwroot. Anyway, once unzipped, simply launch a handy browser and go to http://servername/wss-recover.asp. The script will prompt with default settings, and most people should be able to just click through and get a list of their files. If you've changed database names or what not, it'll be trickier for you.