boomer49

I'm not tech savy enough to understand your directions to clear the files.
Can you give me a step by step? Thanks


"Shubhankar Sanyal [MSFT]" wrote:

> 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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