The Yosemite, the ship with the missing crew, was in a plasma stream that stretched from a star to a black hole (or neutron star). The crew members had been infected with "quasi-energy microbes." They had reprogrammed the biofilters to filter them out and that's what they tried to do when they were caught in the beam.
There's two factors that make transport unique here. The first is the plasma stream, which includes a distortion field and ionic interference. The other is the quasi-energy microbes in the plasma stream.
Barclay gives a answer, which is basically a hand-wave to explain it. After he rescues one crewman, who explains they were trying to use the biofilter to rid themselves of the microbes, Geordi says, "It looks like you pushed molecular dispersion past the integrity point. Your patterns got caught in the beam." Then Barclay responds with, "The residual energy from the plasma stream. It must have amplified the charge in the buffer in order to keep your patterns from degrading."
So the extra energy from the plasma stream allowed the pattern buffer to maintain the data for more than several days.
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