How to Move Offline Files Cache in Windows 7?

I'm using the offline files feature in Win7 (much better implementation, btw - kudos!) and I've run into a problem: the CSC is using up all the drive space on C:\. I'd like to move the CSC to D:\, however I've been unable to do so.
I've seen this posted here previously (2/2009), however the response was to follow the instructions from Vista (using migwiz.exe). When I launch migwiz.exe, I have no option of selecting the offline files as outlined in the Vista instructions (http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/12/12/moving-the-offline-files-cache-in-windows-vista.aspx).
Are there any other ways of doing this?
Thanks!

Hi everyone,
I have found a way to move the offline cache in W7, but it means you have to reset your existing offline files, give the new location, and resync the folders in the new location.
Here is what to do (if you haven't synchronised any offline files yet, for exemple after a clean install, you can start directly in step 3):
0) Make sure your existing offline files are synchronised with the server, as you are going to lose ALL the offline copies and you don't want to lose any new/modified files. Make a backup if you're not sure and if the files are important.
1) reset the content of the old cache by adding the following command in a batch file and running it (of course you can add the parameter in the registry manually, but it's quite handy to have the batch ready whenever you need to reset the cache):
REG ADD "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters" /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
2) Reboot, the added key will be detected, all the content of the cache will be deleted, as well as the key itself (it only resets once)
3) Add the following registry key in the same HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters section of the registry:
Type: REG SZ (string)
Name: CacheLocation
Value: the new location in NT format, ie \??\d:\csc if you want to create the new cache in d:\csc
4) Create the folder in the new location
5) Reboot (not sure if it's necessary, but better safe than sorry)
6) Reselect the files/folders you want to sync offline, and they should sync in the new location.
7) If you want to, you can delete the old cache location in c:\windows\csc by following the end of the vista procedure linked in the first post (using takeown etc)
It worked for me (Win7 RTM x86), let us know if it works for you...
Obviously it won't help if you don't want to / can't resynchronise, but if you're starting from scratch or don't mind resyncing from scratch, it's a good workaround.
EDIT: if you sync a lot of files and get a lot of errors, try to reset your offline files again following the above procedure (steps 1-2), disable offline files, reboot, enable offline files, reboot, and resync your files. Again, it worked for me...

Similar Messages

How to move offline files to sharepoint with same version history

Hi,
We have downloaded some of the file from sharepoint in our computer, now we have migrated the site to 2013 from 2010.
Can we upload the offline files to new site with version history maintained.
tks,
vidhu

I am not sure you can do this OOTB, either you need custom development or 3rd party tools.
Please remember to mark your question as answered &Vote helpful,if this solves/helps your problem. ****************************************************************************************** Thanks -WS MCITP(SharePoint 2010, 2013) Blog: http://wscheema.com/blog

Windows 8.1 Client Side Caching - Is it possible to specify the location of the offline file cache?

Hi,
Is there any approved way to change the location of the offline files cache in Windows 8.1? I'm asking before moving client systems from Windows 7 where a registry change was required - is this still the way to go?
I believe that if the default user-profile directory is moved, this causes problems for updates to Windows 8/8.1 now, is the same true if you move CSC?
Just a bit of background. The systems I want to do this for have smallish SSD boot drives with a higher capacity spinning disk. The machines are members of a domain with Folder Redirection setup. I could setup group policies to disable
caching of some of the larger directories or even disable CSC entirely on the machines which have an SSD boot drive, but would prefer not to do so.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
According to your descryption, In windows 7, the tool is migwiz.exe, namely the Windows Easy Transfer, you can modify the registry in the way listed in the post below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bbf5890c-b3d7-4b38-83d8-d9a5e025fb2b/how-to-move-clientside-caching-to-a-new-location?forum=w7itproinstall
In Windows 8, Windows easy transfer is also a built in tool to migrate user profiles and user settings, but as for the offline transfer, I suggest to use the USMT for your situation.
Because with USMT you can specify the folder that you want to migrate the files to, by using an offline.xml you can set the path just as the sample listed below:
<offline>
     <winDir>
          <path>C:\Windows</path>
          <path>D:\Windows</path>
          <path>E:\</path>
     </winDir>
     <failOnMultipleWinDir>1</failOnMultipleWinDir>
</offline>
You can also refer t othe details at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824880.aspx
Regards
Wade Liu
TechNet Community Support

How do I move large files from a Windows computer to my MacBook Pro? There are a lot of photos (tiffs

How do I move large files from a Windows computer to my MacBook Pro? There are a lot of photos (tiffs, jpgs, some photoshopped files), iTunes library, word docs. Is there a particular type of external hard drive that can be used or am I limited to copying stuff onto z-drive and moving that way?

If both computers are on the same network, you can share the files from the Windows host using SMB and mount the share on the Mac. Otherwise, the Mac should be able to read (not necessarily write) any storage device formatted in Windows.

How to move PDF file from Spool to Application Server?

How to move PDF file from Spool to Application Server?
Cannot use RSTXPDFT4 because that converts OTF to PDF and the file is already PDF.
RSTXPDFT5 doesn't work. It picks the file up and assigns it a 'text' type and outputs a 1 line txt (1kb in size) on the server with the spool number in it!
The program which outputs the file to the spool, in the first place, uses adobe forms and outputs to a printer of type PDF.

Hi Gemini ,
Please refer the below links.
[http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-hr/convert-a-spool-to-pdf-and-save-on-application-server-in-background-720959]
[http://www.sapfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=325628&start=15]
Edited by: Prasath Arivazhagan on Apr 13, 2010 4:48 PM

How to move downloaded files from download folder to other relevant folder or how to download files in relevant folders other than download folder

how to move downloaded files from download folder to other relevant folder or how to download files in relevant folders other than download folder

Just drag the file from the Download folder to the folder of your choice in Finder. If you are using Safari you can designate a new default download destination in Safari>Preferences>General tab, 'Save Downloads to...'. Other browsers should have a similar option in their preferences.

How to move all files but X to Y

It doesn't really matter if it's in the terminal or if it's a applescript but I need to know how to:
Move all files in a dictionary but a few named.

Could you pleas explain more?
If you do not understand the shell while loop, it is possible that using shell commands is a bit more dangerous than you might want to try.
The explanation:
ls -a | grep -v "X" | while read file
do
    mv "$file" "Y/"
done
ls -a will list all the files in the current working directory (including the invisible files that start with a leading period. Thinking about this, maybe you do not want to include -a. You could cd /path/to/the/desired/directory as a way to set your current working directory as the directory you wish to move things from
cd "/path/of/the/from/directory"
ls | grep -v "X" | while read file
do
    mv "$file" "Y/"
done
The ls command's output is piped (the vertical bar | ) into the grep command (general regular expression parser). The -v option tells grep to throw away any lines (filenames) that match the regular expression "X". So if the regular expression X matches all the files you do not want to move, the filenames send to the next pipe will be the files you wish to move.
The while loop will read the filenames grep has selected and invoke the mv (move) command for each file selected by grep and move them to the destination directory Y
The bigest risk is that you will execute this in the wrong directory and move the files that you need somewhere else. OR WORSE, if "Y" is NOT a directory, and you DO NOT put a trailing / the mv could move easy file to the destination file, deleting the previous file for each file moved, so effectively deleting every file in the directory except the last one.
This is why I said if you do not understand what is going on with the shell commands, you could do damage to your system.
ls could have the /path/of/the/from/directory instead of using the cd command. The grep command could be replaced with egrep that allows using alternate matching strings:
ls /path/of/the/from/directory | egrep -v "abc.txt|def.jpg|xyz.mp3|etc..." | while read file
do
    mv "$file" "/path/to/the/destination/directory/" # notice the trailing slash for safety
done
Good luck. I hope you do not destroy your system

How to exclude a file/folder from Windows Defender malware scan in Windows 8/8.1?

How to exclude a file/folder from Windows Defender malware scan in Windows 8/8.1?
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/wiki/protect_defender-protect_scanning/how-to-exclude-a-filefolder-from-windows-defender/f32ee18f-a012-4f02-8611-0737570e8eee

Hi,
Thank you for sharing the solutions & experience here. It will be very beneficial for other community members who have similar questions.
Regards,
Kelvin hsu
TechNet Community Support

How do I transfer files from a Windows laptop to an iPad and ensure they are accessible please?

Hello...
I am new to the Apple community and would be very grateful for some help. My Dad recently purchased an iPad. He is a professor and has his lectures saved on his Window laptop (predominantly PowerPoint, plus PDFs and Word files) but wants them on his iPad and needs to be able to access them all. He has mistaken me for some kind of computer whiz and thinks I'm able to do this; the truth is I haven't got a clue where to start.
Any idiot-proof advice and/or ideas on how best to transfer files from a Windows 7 laptop to iPad (including whatever apps, if any need to be bought) would be very greatly appreciated
Thanks very much all

Hi Julian,
Sorry for the delay in response, I didn't think many answers would come in so quickly being Christmas and all...
My Dad only needs to be able to access files for reference; any editing or alteration to pre-existing files would largely be done on a desktop or his laptop. In the meantime, Dropbox does look ideal and I will investigate along with the other great ideas suggested on here for the best option.
Thanks very much...

How to edit NTFS file permissions in Windows PE 3.0

Does anyone know how to edit NTFS file permissions from Windows PE 3.0?

Hello,
The Windows Desktop Perfmon and Diagnostic tools forum is to discuss performance monitor (perfmon), resource monitor (resmon), and task manager, focusing on HOW-TO, Errors/Problems, and usage scenarios.
Since your post is off-topic, I am moving it to the
off topic forum.
Karl
When you see answers and helpful posts, please click Vote As Helpful, Propose As Answer, and/or Mark As Answer.
My Blog: Unlock PowerShell
My Book:
Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible
My E-mail: -join ('6F6C646B61726C406F75746C6F6F6B2E636F6D'-split'(?<=\G.{2})'|%{if($_){[char][int]"0x$_"}})

Any way to re-dnld purchased music? had program change and somehow music went to My Pic's Folder which of course can't be used. Can't figure how to "move" the file around. Have Windows XP..

any way to re-dnld purchase music from itunes to computer? had a program change and somehow previously purchase music went into My Photos File. ???? do not know how ! can't figure out how to move the music to the itunes folder.

Yes, visit this link. It should help.
Downloading past purchases from iTunes

How to move all files from a folder for a user to a centralized folder on a core server with a GP

Hello,
I was curious if someone know how to move all the files of a user "local" profile on a Terminal Server to that of a centralized server where the "local" profile of like the user desktop, favorites, setting, etc are stored in the event
the local profile on the TS become corrupt it can pull from this server...
The problem I have is no matter what I tell users to save there files to our Y drive that is a folder that is synced
across all 6 of our TS servers, users still store files on there desktops, so as you can imagine if one day they are on one server, then next day they could be on another and there files aren't the same.... hence the reason why I want to move all there files
to the centralized server so when I redo the profiles from scratch on the TS server in the farm they suck files from the core server and have all of the files they are used to having....
So I was curious and I've heard from some this is possible in a GP, but I'd like to move the contents of all 6 TS for
each user or if I have to d this on per user basis I will, just looking for a way to move the files....

Hi Trevor,
To move all users’ desktop to a server, we can use Folder Redirection to do this. The path for Folder Redirection is:
[Group Policy Object Name]\User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection
In this situation, we can choose to redirect desktop to the root of a network file share or a folder on a network share.
Regarding how to configure this, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Configuring Folder Redirection
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc786749.aspx
Hope it helps.
Best regards,
Frank Shen

How to clear uploaded files cache

on my phone i hane no option for rooting to get access to system files but whenever i upload a large (15 megs or so) file it claims a huge portion of my phone system memory to what im guessing is cache the file im uploading.
this extra data is not freed by the system at startup and im not sure if the options in clear private data will completely clear it.
is there a way to either clear uploaded files or atleast force firefox to use my sd.card storage space for uploads/plugins/ addons or anything else it needs to atore?

Hello,
Please see the support request below. It contains tips on how to reduce the size of the cache and also how to move the cache to external storage.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/947996

Too much caching in 2008, how can I limit file-cache?

2008 Server with enough RAM, client copies a server stored file to the local drive, the server "eats" up all his ram, and when the server hits the limit it slows down to crawl speed, like he would be swapping out his cache too. Especially annoying if the server runs hyper-v guests, they nearly stop. I saw that effect on a lot of servers, but all my searches failed. 2008-R2 does not show that annoying effect, so I hope again it can be adjusted in 2008.
See this screenshot (Update interval of taskmanager is 5 seconds): http://csb-filderstadt.homepage.t-online.de/Too-much-caching.png
Server 2008 enterprise, 16 GB RAM, 2 Quad-core, uses 650 MB (the hyper-v guests are not running) when without load. One client copies a .vhd file of about 70 GB from the server to himself. The network speed is OK, about 100 MBytes/s, copy speed slows down to about 80 MB/s when the RAM limit is reached.
But how can I prevent that the simple file cache eats up all RAM, and then slows down the machine to crawl, including all hyper-v guest (if they are running). Opening a taskmanager takes about 1 minute when the limit is reached, normally less than a second.
Is there a setting in the registry so I can either limit the RAM used for caching, or a way to tell the filecache to leave more free RAM for the actual work?

Guys,
This is an old post but I have been looking everywhere for a solution.
Below is the server config:
Windows 2008 R2 Standard 64bit
12 GB Ram
HyperV - 2 Virtual
Virtual 1 - 1 GB - Virtual server only created and powered on not used
Virtual 2 - 2 GB - Virtual server only created and powered on not used
Exchange 2010 on Physical server
less than 10 users on exchange
Current Mail box per user - approx 3 GB
AV - Nod32
BES Express on Physical server
When I reboot the server the Memory usage is around 60% but slowly store.exe starts to eat the memory and finally it reaches 98% and then server hangs. This is so regular that sometimes I have to reboot the server 3 or 4 times a week.
BTW, I tried to limit the memory usage to 3GB via ADSI after googling but store.exe keeps on using and there was no use making this change.
ADSI change: msExchESEParamCacheSizeMax = 393216
Can someone please please help me.
Regards
J
Your setup is wrong for your usage.
My recommendation would be:
1 Virtual Exchange with 8 GB RAM (or 6GB with dynamic up to 8GB) and four virtual CPU's
1 Virtual Blackberry Server with 2 GB RAM and two virtual CPU's.
Host machine: Only AV and Hyper-V, nothing else, not even connected to an active directory domain if not REALLY needed.
This will solve your memory issues without requiring hacking 'round the cache settings of Exchange.

How to move a file to a different folder in webdynpro?

Hi all
i ve created a file in some folder using fileoutput stream(). now i want to delete this file from folder and copy that file into some different folder.
can anyone tell me.How to delete and move a file?

try {
     File inputFile = new File("C:\test\fold1\abc.txt");
     File outputFile = new File("C:\test\fold2\def.txt");
     FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
     FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
     FileChannel inc = in.getChannel();
     FileChannel outc = out.getChannel();
     inc.transferTo(0, inc.size(), outc);
     inc.close();
     outc.close();
     in.close();
     out.close();
     boolean fileDeleteSuccess = inputFile.delete();
     if(!fileDeleteSuccess)
          System.out.println("File couldnot be deleted");
     else
          System.out.println("File deleted!!");
     } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
     } catch (IOException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();

How to Move Offline Files Cache in Windows 7?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for