boomer49

The folder I wanted to be available offline was one of many(my entire my
documents) that I had available for sharing on my network. after the sync
process it would not let me access the other files in my docs. It had a grey
x by the folder and said that the folder was "offline" when my wife's my
docs worked fine, so I know the network was working ok. I disabled sharing
for the my docs folder, changed the name and then enabled sharing again and
everything worked fine. I then tried to make one of the folders available
offline and the same thing happened. I tried a third time and it seems to
have worked fine. However, now that I know about synctoy, that really meets
my needs better. I just need to know how to delete all the files that my
laptop thinks it is holding for me to be available offline.

Thanks



"Shubhankar Sanyal [MSFT]" wrote:

> 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......
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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