Dave
Fri Jun 06 08:18:13 PDT 2008
I agree that a lot of people seem to report problems with offline files, but
I've got to say I've never had a problem with it here. I use it on about 30
XP and Vista client PCs (Vista syncs in the background and it's much better
than XP in that regard).
My only complaint is that I wish that for shared computers, you could set
some users to sync and others not. I have to disable sync on the shared
computers in conference rooms, or I end up with no free space due to
everyone's redirected docs synching.
Any sync problem I've ever seen are fixed by either deleting the offline
files and re-synching, or hard resetting the cache (ctrl+shift when clicking
the Delete button).
"Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP]" <lstruckmeyer@mis-wizards.com> wrote in
message news:D67B289B-131E-4AAA-A937-8AF57049B007@microsoft.com...
> Hi Mathew:
>
> Some users find this a PITA. Not sure why, but it sometimes is. MS has a
> utility from the sys internals group called sync toy:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0FC1154-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7&displaylang=en
>
> cool utility to allow you to keep folders in sync. You have to check in,
> check out manually, but it is very quick and has no impact on the user
> experience for a normal log in / out, just when they want to check out
> files for a longer time away.
>
> --
> Larry
>
>
> "Matthew" <mappleNOSPAMPLEASE@inch.com> wrote in message
> news:%23yA7jT1xIHA.5832@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Wow, so basic, I never even thought to look in My Documents!! They're
>> all there!! That's how it's supposed to work. Thank you for pointing out
>> the obvious to me!
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>> "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in
>> message news:2847D041-FCA8-44B9-9C97-B1FA378B0CF7@microsoft.com...
>>> Offline Files should be transparent to the user. For example, if you
>>> access a redirected My Documents directory on the server when connected
>>> to the LAN, when you're working offline you'll still go to File -> Open.
>>> You'll see the same thing you do when connected to the LAN, but under
>>> the covers, you'll be accessing offline copies of the files.
>>>
>>> IMO the only real trick is that if a user has both a laptop and a
>>> desktop, it's important to sync the laptop after traveling, before
>>> starting to work on the desktop. Windows can deal with sync conflicts
>>> fairly well, but it's still easier if you just avoid the conflicts in
>>> the first place.
>>>
>>> You don't really need to access the files where you are in Windows
>>> Explorer unless you're troubleshooting, or maybe trying to recover a
>>> file that's been deleted from it's main location.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Matthew" <mappleNOSPAMPLEASE@inch.com> wrote in message
>>> news:eOsblG1xIHA.2184@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hi. Sorry if I over cross-posted!
>>>>
>>>> I have one staff member who travels a lot, and she has historically
>>>> manually copied her entire (2GB) User directory to her (XP) laptop
>>>> before travelling.
>>>>
>>>> Over a few years, this resulted in about five different versions of her
>>>> directory, a situation I want to prevent from happening again.
>>>>
>>>> So I looked into enabling offline files, the theory being that there
>>>> would be an intelligent process managing the syncronization of files
>>>> between her laptop and the server (Small Business Server 2003).
>>>>
>>>> However, when I enable this and open the Offline Files Folder, what we
>>>> see is an unordered list of a gazillion files, not at all in their
>>>> heirarchical directory structure. It's impossible to find something
>>>> like this.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a better solution? Are we not using Offline Files properly?
>>>> If she copies her entire directory
>>>>
>>>> Any input is greatly appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Matthew
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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