We know that in order to use a network folder in offline mode, we need to mark that folder for offline cache by right clicking and then selecting “Make available offline”. But we can have few special folders which does not require this step and are still available offline. These files/folders are called administratively assigned … Read more
How to Use/enable Offline Files?The first thing you need to do is to enable Offline Files feature on your machine. You should have administrator privileges to do this. Open My computer from start menu Click on Tools from the menu bar. Now select Folder options and then click on Offline Files tab in the Folder … Read more
Administrators can disable Offline Files usage for all the members in a domain by configuring group policy settings. Steps for this are given below. Open group policy object editor. (To know how to open this read the post Opening group policy object editor in 2003 DC ) Expand Computer Configuration node Expand Administrative templates node … Read more
Where is the offline files folder located? It’s normally in C:windowsCSC (this won’t be visible unless you enable view system files ) However offline files folder can be changed by modifying registry key. See next question for more details. My offline files folder is in c:windows. My c: drive has become full, I want to … Read more
What is exclusion list? Does not Offline files support all the file types? Some of the file types are excluded by default. They are .db, .ldb, .mdb, .mde, .mdw, .pst, .slm; Microsoft says that these file types are excluded to prevent file conflicts and data loss. See here //support.microsoft.com/kb/252509 So what happens when I mark … Read more
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On Windows XP we can view the offline pinned files as follows. Open Offline files tab in Folder options windows(For detailed steps see the first part of the post How to enable offline files in Windows XP) Now in the Offline Files tab you can see a button View Files. See the snapshot below. Click … Read more
Cachemov.exe can be downloaded from //www.computerperformance.co.uk/ScriptsGuy/cachemov.zip Cachemov.exe can be used to move offline files cache to a new folder. Note that this tool can be used only on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. It does not work for Windows Vista and upper level platforms.
What is Offline Files ? Offline files is a feature in Windows operating systems to use network files even though we are not connected to the network. This is a very useful feature for laptop users who want to access network shares even when they are not connected to the network. For this you just … Read more
CSCCMD is a client side cache utility which can be used for various Client Side Cache(CSC) management operations. Some of the operations we can perform using this tool are enabling/disabling offline files, pinning files for offline availability, listing the files/folders that are already cached, forcing a share to go offline etc. But all these operations … Read more