Donovan
Use WinSCP on your Windows PC. Connect to the affa server then logon as "admin"... and you can navigate anywhere in the SME filesystem and copy files to or from it.
But WHY?
Use the proper AFFA recovery procedures (read the documentation) to get recover any lost files.
If you start meddling ..... sorry ...inventing your own ways ... then no-one else can help when it goes wrong.
Remember the old saying "Be careful what you wish for, it may be granted...."
Have a look at your statement "I really need to".... Do you really NEED to, or is it just you WANT to because you didn't know how to recover lost files using AFFA.
As Janet said, read the AFFA contrib article carefully. It is all explained there.
Good luck
Ian