Cannot Remove Offline Files from Sync Center

I believe I have searched the history of Sync Center issues enough that this is an issue that has not yet been addressed. If so, please point me to the proper article. Thanks!
I was making folders available for offline use in my Win 7 Ultimate edition. We are in the process of moving to NAS servers (with new network names) and I know syncing with NAS servers is not working correctly right now.
So I have unchecked all the folders to make then unavailable for offline. I have also gone to "Manage Offline Files" and tried deleting all offline files for the network drive. However, there is one Network Drive that I cannot get to delete no matter what I try. I have tried Deleting Offline Copy for the drive (which it says is successful), but the network drive and a folder hierarchy remain when I view Offline Files. Also, when I view this folder path in Windows Explorer, it gives a status of "Offline Availability: Available". I find this odd since the Make Available Offline box is not set for any of the files or folders in this path. Also, this message seems odd to me since the only valid messages I have found for this status are "Always Available" or "Not Available".
I have also tried making all of these files and folders available offline again and removed and deleted, but I still have the same problem. I have also tried the registry key to reset the cache for offline files and that did not work either.
Please help me get rid of this because it is driving me nuts!
Thanks.

OMG!!!!THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!You have no idea how long I've been trying to get rid of those files!I've had those files for about a year or longer & no one could tell me how to
get rid of 'em,& plus I know a lot about computers(:/ I'm somewhat of a hacker too,you could say)so you(not you specifically,but people who are not knowledge based with computers)can only imagine how
FRUSTRATING it is to not no the answer!I mean I had just short of
50GB eating up space/memory on my computer,just because the other computer was renamed,and placed under a new server & wireless network;so I couldn't re-sync them under the same partnership because the associated computer wasn't/couldn't
be found,even though I had changed the computer name back & tweaked both the server & wireless network to match the original proportions or requirements for the partnership!I mean I was even thinking of removing my hard drive & mounting to another
computers hard drive(proverbially the partnered computer)to get deep within the system files without causing any structural damage to the motherboard or operating system(kinda like the time I accidentally compressed the boot the boot drive!:'(
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