Sometimes users see “enable offline files” option greyed out in the Offline Files tab. This happens when the group policy is set to disable offline files. This locks the offline files UI and users will not be able to change any setting. You might have to contact the administrator of the computer domain to get the the … Read more
In Windows 2003 Server, one can not enable offline files when Remote desktop is enabled on the machine. If you do not see anything in offline files tab (like above) in Folder options windows then check if Remote desktop is enabled on the machine. In Windows XP, one can not enable offline files when Fast … Read more
offline files feature can be used as a tool to synchronize files between two computers, though it is not really intended for this purpose. Many laptop users face the situation that they keep the files on their laptops as well as the desktops and have to do a manual synchronization between the two when the … Read more
Do the following to make a network folder available offline. Offline files should be enabled before running these steps. See the post How to enable offline files in Windows XP. Open the network share and select the file or folder that you want to make available offline Right click the share or file Select “Make … Read more
Administrators can enable offline files feature for all the members in a domain by configuring group policy settings. Given below are steps to configure this. Open group policy object editor. (See How to Open group policy object editor ) Expand Computer Configuration node Expand Administrative templates node Expand Network Select offline files. Now in the … Read more
Below is a question asked by a blog reader regarding recovering offline files from the d* directories. I am writing this as a separate post assuming that it will be useful to others also. “Is there a way to recover offline files without the original index database? Here’s the situation… we had a tech accidentally … Read more
As mentioned in previous posts, offline files cache is stored in %systemdrive%windowscsc folder. This systemdrive is usually c: drive. Initially you may have enough free space on c: but as the system gets older you would have installed lots of new software and you may feel like freeing up the space on c: drive. In … Read more
CSCCMD.exe is an useful tool to configure and control offline files operation. Various options available with this command are described below along with examples. Note that this tool works only on Windows XP & Server 2003 operating systems. It is not supported on Windows Vista and Windows 7. To check if Offline Files is enabled … Read more
Windows enables users to redirect some of the user folders like My Documents, My pictures, My applications etc to network shares. Offline files is, by default, enabled for redirected folders. We do not need to explicitly mark them for offline availability. So when you redirect your My Documents folder to some network share and even … Read more
Registry keys related to offline files are explained below. DatabaseLocation DatabaseLocation is offline files related registry parameter and it exists under the following node. HKLM\Software\\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache This key contains the path of the folder where information about offline files is stored. Note that with the default settings you will not see the above key in the … Read more