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When we try to mark a large sized network folder for offline availability Offline files/CSC may give an error saying “Incorrect functioin: Unable to make available offline“.  This happens intermittently and the problem may disappear when we try to offline the share again. Microsoft confirmed that it is a bug in offline files and also [...]

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Disable Client Side Cache

Client Side Cache or CSC is just another term for the Offline Files feature in Windows operating systems. It’s most widely known as offline files only. But the cache location is named CSC. And this can be located in C:WindowsCSC. We can disable Client Side Cache using the in-build graphical user interface(GUI) or through registry [...]

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In Windows XP we can disable offline files/Client side cache in the following way. (Initial steps are pretty much the same as Enabling offline files) Open My computer from start menu Click on Tools from the menu bar. Now select Folder options and then click on Offline Files tab in the Folder options window Now [...]

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What is mobsync.exe?

Mobsync.exe is a synchronization utility which is shipped along with Windows OS. This utility is responsible for synchronizing(syncing) offline files cache and any offline html pages. Mobsync.exe can be found in [systemdrive]:windowssystem32 folder. If the sytem drive is C: then it can be found in C:windowssystem32 folder. This synchronizing utility can be launched from Run [...]

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Offline Files has got its own user interface to disable the feature. But in case if you want to do it by hacking the registry or through a batch script, this article shows how you can do that. Since Offline files has changed a lot in Vista and Windows 7 when compared with XP, find [...]

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C:WindowsCSC folder

What is C:WindowsCSC folder? What does it store? C:WindowsCSC folder is the one where Windows keeps the cache of the files and folders for which offline files feature is enabled. Offline feature is present in Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 OS editions. Windows treats this folder as system file and does not display [...]

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This article describes the steps for recovering offline files from the client machine when the server share is inaccessible or no longer exists. If the user who made the shares offline can access the machine then recovering the files is pretty easy. Open Explorer from the user’s login account, click on Tools in the menu [...]

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Offline Files Service

In Vista and Widows 7 Offline Files feature works with the help of a service name called ‘Offline Files’. This service is introduced in Windows Vista; Windows XP does not have any such service associated with Offline Files.What is offline files service? What does it do? Offline files service manages the local cache, invokes periodic [...]

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In Windows 7 Start menu, in the default configuration, only shutdown button is displayed as an option among hibernate/switch user/logoff/restart/sleep/lock/shutdown. You can change the button action to any of hibernate/logoff/restart/sleep. Right click on Start button Select Properties It opens Taskbar and start menu properties window as below: Click on the drop down list located against [...]

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Offline files and Remote desktop

In Windows 2003 Server, one can not enable offline files when remote desktop is enabled on the machine.  When we open Offline Files tab in Folder Options window we see a message that ‘Remote desktop is configured to support multiple connections. Offline files cannot be enabled with remote desktop in this configuration.‘  Snapshot of this [...]

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