boomer49

I did try control panel-> Offline files. I tell it to delete the files, it
says it is deleting them, but they are still there. So this is how it went:
I folder named "A" that I made available offline. There was a problem then
seeing other shared folders. I played around with it and finally changed the
name of the file to "B". Same thing happened with not being able to see
other files, it would say they were offline when I knew they were online. So
I tried on more time and changed the the file name to "C". Everything is
working fine now except the files from the first two syncs are still there
eating up nearly 20gigs of space.

I have since played with synctoy and have that working well and no longer
need to use the offline files feature and would like to delete all files
associated with it.

Thank you very much for your help.


"Shubhankar Sanyal [MSFT]" wrote:

> Did you try to delete these files through the control panel->Offline files?
> If not, how did you try it?
> We have encountered some issues while deleting entries from the offline
> files cache in certain scenarios. There might be a qfe to address this in
> the future. In the mean time, one option is to reinitialize your entire
> offline files cache. However this will mean that you will have to make the
> folders of interest available offline again. You will also lose any unsynced
> changes.
>
> Thanks
>
> "boomer49" <boomer49@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3EDF53D1-3D07-47F0-8A49-6A5FC6E1749F@microsoft.com...
> > The files are still present, but i changed the name of the folder. I did
> > that a few times for the same folder. Now I would just rather use a
> > different method to keep these files in sync, however I have this folder
> > copied onto the laptop hard drive 3 times taking up 20 gigs. I'd like to
> > just delete all those files.
> >
> > Thanks....
> >
> > "Shubhankar Sanyal [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> Are the shares in question still present on the server (the XP machine if
> >> I
> >> understand correctly)?
> >> Did you try to delete these files through the control panel->Offline
> >> files?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> "boomer49" <boomer49@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:7EF01B75-4F65-4F92-A9E4-450A49FBE41B@microsoft.com...
> >> > I'm running Vista Business(laptop). I enabled a folder(on my desktop
> >> > running
> >> > XP) to be available offline. I was haveing some issues and somehow
> >> > sync'd
> >> > the folder 3 times under different names.... Now I have a bunch of
> >> > files
> >> > on
> >> > the laptop (20gigs) that will not delete. How do I delete these not
> >> > longer
> >> > needed offline file shares from my computer. I click delete and it
> >> > says
> >> > they
> >> > are being deleted, but, they are still there.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks......
> >>
> >>
>
>