Offline files provides a configurable setting called Slow Link policy, which, if enabled, will reduce the network traffic between client and server. Suppose you are working from home and are connected to your office network. If your network connection is very slow, the time CSC takes to synchronize the local cache with the server files … Read more
On Windows XP/2003 machines we can delete or reinitialize offline files/CSC cache in any of the following ways. User Interface Open My computer from start menu Click on Tools Click on Folder Options Select Offline Files tab Press CTRL+Shift and click on Delete Files. Using Registry key Add a new value named FormatDatabase of type … Read more
Though offline files is a very useful feature there are many scenarios where the feature does not work as expected. One such issue is discussed below.When you try to mark a file/folder for offline availability(i.e right click the folder and click on ‘Make available offline’) you may get an error message ‘Errors occurred while windows … Read more
If you are using Windows Server 2008 you might have noticed that you can’t see ‘Enable Offline files‘ option anywhere. Reason for this is that Server 2008 edition does not support offline files feature by default. We need to install Desktop Experience for this. Offline files is something that is used when one tries to … Read more
Offline files are stored in [systemdrive]:windows\CSC folder. If OS is installed in C: drive then the cache location is C:\Windows\CSC. If you want to change the cache location to a different drive or any other folder on C: then read this post – How to change offline files location on Windows 7.
Offline files synchronization that takes place during user logoff can be disabled for all domain users in the following way. (To disable logoff sync for a single user then see Disable logon logoff sync ) Log in to the Domain Controller machine. Open the Group policy object editor( see here) Go to Computer Configuration -> … Read more
Some users complain that Client Side Cache(CSC or Offline Files) is slowing down logon and logoff as it tries to synchronize all the locally cached files with the server ones. The default synchronization does quick sync which means that only the files that have been changed locally will be synced to the server. But if … Read more
If you do not see Offline files option in Network and Internet in Control Panel, then it could be that you are running an edition of OS which does not support Offline Files feature. Offline files feature is provided only in Vista Business and Vista Ultimate editions. It is not supported by Vista Home and … Read more
In Windows Vista offline files feature can be enabled in the following way. Click on Start button (Shortcut for this: Ctrl-Esc (or) windows key) Click on Control Panel Click on Network and Internet Click on Offline Files. In the General tab, click on ‘Enable Offline Files‘. Say continue if user account control asks confirmation. Now you can see the offline files window in the below state. … Read more
Offline files cache is stored in windowscsc folder on system drive. If the system drive is labeled c: then offline files cache would be stored in c:windowscsc. As in windows XP, this location can be changed by editing registry database. Registry key for this is HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicesCSCParameters Regkey : CacheLocation Type: REG_SZ By default cache is … Read more