Update on Offline Files issues
- After 22 days of troubleshooting my Offline Files woes, I have some new information. I still dont' have everything working as it should, and it was NEVER this difficult and problematic in Win7 beta (build 7000, or Vista and XP for that matter).
Anyway, here is my issue:
After enabling the "Administratively Assigned Offline Files" option via Group Policy Editor on the CLIENT PC (I never had to mess with this in Win7 beta, Vista or XP), this seemed to make things partially work. I say "partially" because of what happens next.
After enabling the "Administratively Assigned Offine Files" option in GPE, when I open My Computer, and then right-click on a mapped network drive, I SEE the option to "Make Available Offline". This option NEVER appeared before until I enabled that in GPE. However, I WON'T SELECT IT / CLICK IT. I just click off somewhere (becuase I don't want to make the entire network drive available offline). But when I right-click on the mapped network drive again, the "Make Available Offline" option is GONE completely! Why does it appear ONCE when I right-click on a mapped network drive, but when I do it again the option dissapears completely?I am able to re-create this issue (and have successfully done so 10+ times). I just disable "Administratively assigned offline files" and re-enable, and like magic the "Make Available Offline" option re-appears, ONCE. ***ONLY ONCE***. Then I have to disable the option, and repeat to make it appear ONCE again.
It makes NOOOO sense.
After enabling again, I decided to click the option "Make Available Offline" just to see what happens. Wa-la! I saw the window that says "Preparing Files...". I'd never gotten this far before and thought I was onto something good. Offline Files FINALLY started to sync for first time after 22 days. I saw the files it was going through and thought "Yes!!!!!"
But...
on my Mapped Network Drive, I have some folders in the root of the drive that I DO NOT want to be synced. When I right-click on the actual folder inside the mapped network drive to exclude, I don't see the option to DE-SELECT it from the pop-up menu (this worked in Win7 beta), but when I go to Properties, I see the "Offline Files" tab, and I see the "Make Available Offline" checkbox. It's checked. When I UNCHECK the box, click Apply then OK, nothing happens. When I repeat the step, the checkbox is CHECKED again!
This is a nightmare. I shouldn't need to mess with Group Policy Editor just to make an option appear ONCE before it dissapears again if I don't immediately select it. This is a simple workgroup setup--TWO computers running Windows 7. One is the server (a desktop), and the other is a notebook PC that I need to have the files made available offline.
Still don't have everything working as it should, but this should give Microsoft Engineers a little more info about my problem that may be helpful. I hope!- Tipo cambiadoRonnie VernonMVP, Moderadormartes, 16 de junio de 2009 3:11Comment
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