Offline caching windows 7

Wednesday, March 23, AM. Why don't you just change the share properties the share that H: maps to on the server? Right-click your folder, choose Properties, Advanced Sharing, Caching, and choose 'Files or programs from the share will not be available offline'.

This wont prevent the caching of my documents provided that they are not stored in a subdirectory of the H: drive Alan Moseley. Marked as answer by Lucky. Thursday, April 7, AM. Has anybody else experienced this trouble? Wednesday, April 6, AM.

Did you get any help on this. Would love to know the answer as well. The CSC folder, and any files and subfolders it contains, should not be modified directly; doing so can result in data loss and a complete breakdown of Offline Files functionality.

If you suspect corruption in the database, then the files should be deleted using the Offline Files viewer. After the files are deleted out of the Offline Files viewer, a synchronization of files may then be forced using Synchronization Manager.

If the cache still does not appear to function correctly, an Offline Files reset can be performed using the following procedure:. The following message appears:. The Offline Files cache on the local computer will be re-initialized. Any changes that have not been synchronized with computers on the network will be lost. Any files or folders made available offline will no longer be available offline.

The only way to delete cache is using registry key. Detail steps are given below. We can do the above steps from command line too. For this you just need to run the below command from elevated administrator command prompt. Note that 'Delete temporary files' button under the 'Disk Usage' tab in 'Manage Offline files' window is not meant for deleting offline files cache. Some people have the misconception that this deletes offline files cache.

This is not true. How can you recover lost files after you do click 'delete offline copies' and then run this in the registry? Didnt work for me — where isthe actual folder located? I just deleted the v2. This database becomes corrupt due to a large number of reasons, but usually based on having too many files and the database being closed mid-sync.

Though i've had to reset the cache to just get offline sync working the first time. As for the person looking to recover files after resetting the cache. Good luck, you are trying to recover something you've purposfully deleted. Always try and recover the files before doing something destructive. However, the hack below only works on Windows Vista:. Run Registry Editor RegEdit.

Right-click Parameters , point to New , and then click String Value , and name the new registry value as CacheLocation. Right-click CacheLocation , and then click Modify. Once the Windows 7 detects the registry key, the cache will be reset, and the registry key removed one time effect only. Click My old computer.

Click External hard disk or to a network location. Type a path where you want to save the Savedata. Click Advanced options.