Shubhankar Sanyal [MSFT]

Hi,
Could you elaborate on what you mean by - "There was a problem then seeing
other shared folders"?

To reset the offline files cache, perform the following steps(note - you'll
lose everything that you made available offline on the client):
1.. In registry, create a DWORD value called FormatDatabase under
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters. To this value, assign
the value of 1.
2.. Restart the computer.
Thanks,
Shubhankar

"boomer49" <boomer49@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D0F9594-A96B-422C-B307-C8E5E3D969F2@microsoft.com...
>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......
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>