Shubhankar Sanyal [MSFT]

The steps to reset the offline files cache were in my previous mail. Let me
know if you have any problems with that. If you decide to use Offline Files
again, I would love to help debug the issue you were seeing. It's not
something we've seen before.

Thanks

"boomer49" <boomer49@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8D20E935-FFBE-49D9-B202-9F35CD8C0C33@microsoft.com...
> 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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