keronnow.blogg.se

1. #Windows 7 sync folders offline full#
2. #Windows 7 sync folders offline Offline#
3. #Windows 7 sync folders offline windows 7#
4. #Windows 7 sync folders offline windows#

#Windows 7 sync folders offline windows#

There was one file that was too long, and Windows has a strange quirk whereby if a file is too long, Windows will not permit you the option to delete or rename it. Just for good measure, I right clicked again and selected delete only to see Windows begin to comb through the files again, needless to say I canceled this operation and went to delete the folder manually directly from Windows Explorer. I couldn’t tell you what Windows was doing for those three hours, but it certainly wasn’t deleting all of those files. I right clicked the namespace folder inside of the CSC folder and wouldn’t you know it - everything was still there. Again, Windows combed through all of the files informing me that it was deleting the local copies of the files, but that network data was not affected.Īfter three hours of it “deleting” the files. Once it was finished, I then right clicked again and clicked delete.

#Windows 7 sync folders offline Offline#

Unfortunately, because I had disabled the feature, all the buttons were grayed out and I had to restart in order to enable them.Īfter restarting, I clicked “View your offline files” and went into mapped drives, right clicked and unchecked “Make available offline.” Windows then proceeded to comb through every single file in the \CSC directory, I can only guess that it was changing some flag on each file. Some cursory online research revealed that deleting the files manually would “break” the Offline Files feature, so, I proceeded revisit the Manage Offline Files feature and try to remove the files the “right” way. I was honestly very surprised to see those files still there with no warning or any indication that they weren’t deleted. Once I did, sure enough, I verified that everything was still there, an entire copy of the drive since I disabled Manage Offline Files. So I had to right click and take ownership of the folder in order to be able to view the contents. I opened up the Windows\CSC directory and the default permissions don’t allow access.

Incredibly, they were never deleted automatically when I disabled the feature. They were the entire drive contents of the mapped network drive that I previously disabled from the Manage Offline Files feature! All of the files were still there residing on my local machine.

#Windows 7 sync folders offline full#

I don’t recommend doing this, it is just horribly slow.ĭuring the latest MSE full virus-scan I performed, I noticed some very familiar files in my Windows\CSC (which stands for “Client Side Caching”) directory.

#Windows 7 sync folders offline windows 7#

Not only that, but I went ahead and disabled the search indexer entirely, which forces Windows 7 to perform a real search of the contents every time I type something resulting in up to date, incredibly slow, accurate search results. It was taking up too much hard drive space, and taking up far too much of my time babysitting the whole process. I elected to disable Offline Files and just go back to the plain old mapped network drive. Because my system is almost always busy doing something, the results were most often incomplete. There were two layers of slowness: (1) the “Sync Center” which now had to synchronize all changes over the network, and I had to keep a close eye on it to make sure it was actually syncing and keeping things up to date because it often wasn’t doing it fast enough and (2) the Search Indexer, which doesn’t have any settings for something like “high priority” so that it would work at full capacity to keep the index up to date. I set all of the filetypes to search contents as well. Most of the files were PDFs, Word documents, and the like. Nevertheless, I still had a lot of incomplete search results. You can “encrypt” offline files by clicking the “Encrypt” button, though, which can be pretty useful if you implement it correctly. So I did, and the search results were somewhat more complete, however, using a lot of hard drive space since it was now maintaining an unencrypted copy of an 80GB TrueCrypt volume worth of data on my local drive.

I realized somehow that Windows wanted me to configure the network drive with the Manage Offline Files feature in Windows 7 and then index it using Windows Search because, for whatever reason, there’s no “index-it-over-the-network-anyway” button. Three months ago, I wanted to search a mapped network drive in Windows 7 only to have it produce incomplete results nearly every time. You could hack it together and no matter what, you could find a way to make even the most unstable, cobbled-together idea, become stable and useful for years and years. There was always a “do it anyway” button, if you will, with Microsoft products. I miss the old days of Windows when there was always a way to get something done.