If you have upgraded from XP to Windows7 you will see lot of changes in offline files feature. It works more robustly when compared to XP. Below are the steps to enable offline files in Win7. Open Control Panel from Start button. Open Sync center (If you don’t see sync center select ‘Small Icons’ in [...]
If you are not seeing Offline files tab in Folder options, it could be because of one of the following reasons.1)You are using XP home edition. Offline files is not a supported feature on Windows XP Home edition. Solution :You need to switch to a supported edition to use offline files. In the below two [...]
If you are seeing Make available offline option grayed out in the context menu for a network folder, there could be different reasons possible. If it shows Make available offline option selected and grayed out then it could be a administratively pinned folder which a normal user can’t change. If it shows Make available offline [...]
Question from a blog reader: The share I made offline has been moved to a new server but offline files is trying to sync with the old server. Is there any way to make it sync with the new server? I do not want to delete the files and begin everything from scratch with the [...]
What kind of shares can we make offline? In XP, offline files is integrated with SMB protocol. So it works only for SMB shares. It can be used on DFS shares also, as DFS shares also work on SMB protocol. Do we need to configure anything on the server machine to use offline files? Though [...]
Offline files periodically synchronizes the cached files with the server copies at regular intervals of time. If the network speed is very low, this sync will consume more time and the user will also have latency issue in accessing the files as the requests go to server only for each and every file access. To [...]
Sometimes users see “enable offline files” option greyed out in the Offline Files tab. This happens when the group policy is set to disable offline files. This locks the offline files UI and users will not be able to change any setting. You might have to contact the administrator of the computer domain to get the the [...]
In Windows 2003 Server, one can not enable offline files when Remote desktop is enabled on the machine. If you do not see anything in offline files tab (like above) in Folder options windows then check if Remote desktop is enabled on the machine. In Windows XP, one can not enable offline files when Fast [...]
offline files feature can be used as a tool to synchronize files between two computers, though it is not really intended for this purpose. Many laptop users face the situation that they keep the files on their laptops as well as the desktops and have to do a manual synchronization between the two when the [...]
Do the following to make a network folder available offline. Offline files should be enabled before running these steps. See the post How to enable offline files in Windows XP. Open the network share and select the file or folder that you want to make available offline Right click the share or file Select “Make [...]
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