Offline Files Synchronization

When running a "Sync All" on offline files, it runs for an hour or so and then just stops and says Sync Failed with 1 error. The error message says "The Handle is Invalid." That is the extent of the message. I currently have offline files
to use 200GB on my 1TB hard drive and am only using 154GB of that space. The files are also set up to be encrypted.
The offline files have run fine without any issues for several weeks, and then I added 132MB of files this past weekend. Ever since then I have not been able to get a full sync to run. Not sure if this is a coincidence or something else is happening.
Any suggestions would be appreciated as I have not found anything of value online.
Michael A. Burrows

Hi,
I am also facing the same issue, when i say "Sync All" it runs
for some time and then just stops and says Sync Failed with error. The error message is "The Handle is Invalid." If i see the files which gives cross mark and it will not allow to open the files, any suggestions or solution...?
Regards,
Premadhas M

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File server migration with Offline files involved

Hi,
We are planning a file server migration in following weeks.
This morning, our customer came with the good old "Ow, and I just thought about something else"
Here's the scenario :
-They are using 1 network drive
-That network drive is made offline available for all laptop users
-Those users are spread out in several country's. No VPN connection
-They are working for months on their offline network drive, right in the middle of the wood, no internet connection, it was already short for them to find power supply for their laptop ...
...nevermind
-The day they come back to the office, the file server to which points the network drives will be offline.
Now the 1 Million question : What happens with their "dirty" files ?
yep exactly. those they changed 6 months ago, have no clue about if you ask them but certainly will the day I will clear the damn cache.
My first analysis :
-The new file server will have another name, no alias or re-using the old name is possible (the customer don't want to)
-I can't tell to those laptops "hey for that offline cache, please use this new network drive"
So :
>> Those users have to identify manually files they changed while being offline, copy them locally on their machine and work that way the time they come back to the main office.
>> When they finally show up, clear the cache, offline the new network drive and replace file copied locally
>> If no internet connexion available in the branch office, let them work locally, it's still better than this hybrid-non-sense 6month offline folder "solution". If internet connexion is mainly available remotely, propose some Citrix/View/RDS
Setup which is, for me, a more professional looking solution
Someone has another (better?) idea/solution ?

Hi,
I suggest you ask users to collect their laptop to internet, then start offline files synchronization on the old file server. After that, use
Robocopy to copy the date from the old server to the new server. As the offline files cache cannot be recognized by the new file server, so we need to synchronize data first.
If the older server cannot be enabled, as you mentioned, you might need to ask users to copy their changed files to the new file servers.
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Satellite A50-532: Synchronization / Offline-files

Hi,
I am using a Satellite A50-532 and I want to make files available locally / offline that are stored on a server. I used to use the XP build-in Offline-files functionality with my old laptop which worked without any problems. Unfortunatley it does not work with the Toshiba as I can't see the data on the server in the tree-structure in the "Synchronization"-window. Right click menu item "Make available offline" is not offered by XP. I already disabled the "Quick user change" as suggested by MS. Firewall and Network problems can also be excluded.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance,
tobi77

Hi
Did you configure your Toshiba notebook to use Offline files?
If not you can configure it on this way:
Click Start, and then click My Computer.
On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
Select the Enable Offline Files check box, and then click OK.
I hope it will help you. Useful article about this issue you can find under http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307853/en-us
Bye

Windows 7 and Offline Files - Sync at logoff

All,
I have set up folder redirection in my organisation (testing purposes) The problem I am facing is Windows 7 will not automatically sync offline files back to the share.
There is a gpo for Windows XP to do this when a user is either is logging off on on. I am trying to accomplish the same when a user logs off and a script can be run to initiate a sync.
Please help.
This is the VBS script I am using, but does nothing when I run it. IS there something missing? A better solution?
' THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
' ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
' THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A
' PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
' Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
' Usage: CscSyncAll.vbs [/Direction:in|out|inout] [/PinNewFiles:1:0] [/Conflicts:local|remote|latest] [/Machine:value] [/User:value] [/Password:value]
' Demonstrates how to sync the entire Offline Files cache.
const cComputerName = "LocalHost"
const cWMINamespace = "root\cimv2"
' Process commandline arguments
strComputerName = WScript.Arguments.Named("Machine")
If Len(strComputerName) = 0 Then strComputerName = cComputerName
strUserID = WScript.Arguments.Named("User")
If Len(strUserID) = 0 Then strUserID = ""
strPassword = WScript.Arguments.Named("Password")
If Len(strPassword) = 0 Then strPassword = ""
' Sync control flags from Win32_OfflineFilesCache.Synchronize
const fFillSparse = &H00000001
const fSyncIn = &H00000002
const fSyncOut = &H00000004
const fPinNewFiles = &H00000008
const fPinLinkTargets = &H00000010
const fPinForUser = &H00000020
const fPinForUser_Policy = &H00000040
const fPinForAll = &H00000080
const fLowPriority = &H00000200
const fAsyncProgress = &H00000400
const fInteractive = &H00000800
const fConsole = &H00001000
const fSkipSuspendedDirs = &H00002000
const fBackground = &H00010000
const fCrKeepLocal = &H10000000
const fCrKeepRemote = &H20000000
const fCrKeepLatest = &H30000000
const wbemFlagSendStatus = &H00000080
SyncControlFlags = fSyncIn + _
fSyncOut + _
fPinNewFiles + _
fPinForUser + _
fConsole + _
fInteractive
strDirection = WScript.Arguments.Named("Direction")
If Len(strDirection) <> 0 Then
if LCase(strDirection) = "in" Then
SyncControlFlags = SyncControlFlags - fSyncOut
Elseif LCase(strDirection) = "out" Then
SyncControlFlags = SyncControlFlags - fSyncIn
Elseif LCase(strDirection) = "inout" Then
' Do nothing. Flags already indicate in/out
Else
Wscript.Echo "Invalid direction value [" & strDirection & "]"
Err.Raise 507 ' "an exception occured" error
End if
End if
strPinNewFiles = WScript.Arguments.Named("PinNewFiles")
If Len(strPinNewFiles) <> 0 And strPinNewFiles = "0" Then
SyncControlFlags = SyncControlFlags - fPinNewFiles
End if
strConflicts = WScript.Arguments.Named("Conflicts")
If Len(strConflicts) <> 0 Then
If LCase(strConflicts) = "local" Then
SyncControlflags = SyncControlFlags + fCrKeepLocal
Elseif LCase(strConflicts) = "remote" Then
SyncControlFlags = SyncControlFlags + fCrKeepRemote
Elseif LCase(strConflicts) = "latest" Then
SyncControlFlags = SyncControlFlags + fCrKeepLatest
End if
End if
Set objWMILocator = WScript.CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIServices = objWMILocator.ConnectServer(strComputerName, _
cWMINameSpace, _
strUserID, _
strPassword)
Set objCache = objWMIServices.Get("Win32_OfflineFilesCache=@")
Set objParams = objCache.Methods_("Synchronize").InParameters.SpawnInstance_
Set objSink = WScript.CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemSink", "SINK_")
Set objItemInstances = objWMIServices.InstancesOf("Win32_OfflineFilesItem")
' Set up the API arguments
Dim ItemPaths(0)
objParams.Paths = ItemPaths
objParams.Flags = SyncControlFlags
' Constants for cache item types
const cFile = 0
const cDirectory = 1
const cShare = 2
const cServer = 3
' Execute the sync action on each share in the Offline Files cache.
For Each objItem in objItemInstances
If cShare = objItem.ItemType Then
ItemPaths(0) = objItem.ItemPath
objParams.Paths = ItemPaths
objWMIServices.ExecMethodAsync objSink, "Win32_OfflineFilesCache", "Synchronize", objParams, wbemFlagSendStatus
End If
Next
' Loop until we receive an OnCompleted event
bDone = False
While Not bDone
wscript.sleep 1000
Wend
Sub SINK_OnProgress(UpperBound, Current, Message, objContext)
DIM PART_REASON, PART_RESULT, PART_RESULTMSG, PART_PATH
DIM REASON_BEGIN, REASON_END, REASON_ITEMBEGIN, REASON_ITEMRESULT
DIM Reasons(3)
' The message is composed as follows:
' <reason>:<result>:<result msg>:<path>
' <reason>
' Integer indicates reason for progress callback.
' Values are:
' 0 - "Begin" overall operation
' 1 - "End" overall operation
' 2 - "Begin Item" operation
' 3 - "Item result"
' <result>
' Integer result code; HRESULT.
' <result msg>
' Text describing the result. In most cases this is translated using
' the Win32 function FormatMessage. In some cases a more descriptive
' message is provided that is better aligned with Offline Files.
' <path>
' UNC path string associated with the progress notifcation. This is
' empty for the "Begin" and "End" notifications.
' Define indexes of the various parts in the message.
PART_REASON = 0
PART_RESULT = 1
PART_RESULTMSG = 2
PART_PATH = 3
' The reason codes present in the <reason> part.
REASON_BEGIN = 0
REASON_END = 1
REASON_ITEMBEGIN = 2
REASON_ITEMRESULT = 3
' split the message into the 4 parts and extract those parts.
Parts = Split(Message, ":", -1, 1)
Reason = CInt(Parts(PART_REASON))
Path = Parts(PART_PATH)
Result = CLng(Parts(PART_RESULT))
ResultMsg = Parts(PART_RESULTMSG)
Select Case Reason
Case REASON_ITEMRESULT
WScript.Echo Path
if 0 <> Result then
Wscript.Echo " Error: " & Hex(Result) & " " & ResultMsg
end if
Case REASON_END
if 0 <> Result then
Wscript.Echo "Error: " & Hex(Result) & " " & ResultMsg
end if
End Select
End Sub
' Called when the operation is complete.
Sub SINK_OnCompleted(HResult, objLastError, objContext)
bDone = True
End Sub
*This code was pulled from: http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2007/04/26/cscsyncall-vbs-sync-the-entire-offline-files-cache.aspx

Hi,
Please know that Offline Files in Windows 7 uses Bitmap Differential Transfer. Bitmap Differential Transfer tracks which blocks of a file in the local cache are modified while you are working offline and then sends only those blocks to the server. In Windows
XP, Offline Files copies the entire file from the local cache to the server, even if only a small part of the file was modified while offline.
How the synchronization in Windows 7 Offline Files works
http://blogs.technet.com/b/netro/archive/2010/04/09/how-the-synchronization-in-windows-7-offline-files-works.aspx
That should be the cause of the issue that your script didn't work.
Considering that the issue should be related to the script, I suggest to post the question on Script Center forum for further help.
Script Center forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/home
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Thanks for understanding.
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Dreamweaver 8 and Microsoft's Offline Files – Code Problem

I'm using Dreamweaver 8 in conjunction with Microsoft Offline
files (part of their server synchronization setup) and when I'm
offline (not connected to the remote server) I get the message:
This file has been modified outside of Dreamweaver. Do you want
to reload it?
At this point whether I select 'Yes' or 'No' Dreamweaver
duplicates a portion of the bottom of the HTML code and tacks it on
to the end. This usually happens after I save a change.
I can't seem to find this discussed any where.

If the local root folder is truly pointed to your wife's
computer, it cannot
possibly pull up a file from some other location. Are you
sure you set the
site up with the macbook as the local root, and not the
remote site?
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> that are stored on my wife's macbook. When I go into
"Manage Sites," I can
> point the Local Root Folder to the folder on the
Macbook, and it will then
> go
> through the "Updating Site Cache." However, when I try
to bring up the
> file to
> do some work, it pulls off of an older copy on my
mac-mini.
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Offline Files Sync Schedule

Hello Everyone,
I cannot find any clear documentation on this.
We have Windows 7 Machines connecting to Windows Server 2012 R2 Shares with redirected Desktop/Documents/Pictures shares with Offline Files enabled on a LAN.
Do we need to schedule a sync, or will Offline Files 'just work' and sort itself out?
To note, we initially had problems with clients filling up the cache, so we increased the cache via group policy - will Offline Files then cope fine and keep syncing or do we need to poke and prod it.
I have read a lot of stuff regarding slow link settings but that doesn't seem to be us as we are on a gigabit LAN with good ping times.

Hi,
You can configure the policy to synchronize during log on or log off. But in Windows 7, synchronization can happen automatically and in the background, without requiring the user to choose between online and offline modes.
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

Windows 7 Offline files behaviour - automatically making 'shortcutted' files available

I am a sysadmin with a few Windows 7 Professional machines in our network.
The current setup for our users is folder-redirection, with offline files enabled for users with laptops (some of which are said Win7 users).
This works fine, just, any shortcut files that are in the users profile (that are made available offline) make the target of the shortcut available offline aswell. Though I see the benefit of this, it is not a behaviour we want.
For example if user 'dave' has a shortcut on \\server1\users\dave\desktop, that points to \\server2\files\shortcut_target.doc (i.e. a directory we don't want to have offline file behaviour with) - it will make both files available offline.
I'm positive it is related to shortcuts, as the files are always shortcutted somewhere in the users profile and the majority of these files come from word's recent documents folder, and other similar folders for different program.
If theres anyway to change this behaviour please let me know, even if it is just a registry edit.
Thanks Dan

Hi,
“For example if user 'dave' has a shortcut on
\\server1\users\dave\desktop, that points to
\\server2\files\shortcut_target.doc (i.e. a
directory we don't want to have offline file behaviour with) - it will make both files available offline.”
Based on my knowledge, Windows only synchronous the shortcut in this offline folder. What do you mean “it will make both files available offline.”
For further research, I suggest you may enable sync log and try to repro this problem. Then move to Event Viewer -> Applications and Service Logs ->
Microsoft -> Windows -> OfflineFiles, right click SyncLog and chose “Save all event as…” to export these event log. Here is my e-mail:
[email protected]. You could contact me, then
I would assist you for this problem.
Please refer following to enable SyncLog:
How to enable the "SyncLog Channel"
===========================================
Offline Files defines four event channels through the Windows Event Viewer.
The channels are listed under the following hierarchy in the left-most pane of the viewer,
Event Viewer -> Applications and Service Logs -> Microsoft -> Windows -> OfflineFiles
If you see only one channel in the event viewer it will be the "Operational" channel. The remaining channels are known as Analytic or Debug
channels. The Windows Event Viewer does not display these additional channels by default. They must first be enabled.
To enable Analytic and Debug logs, highlight the "OfflineFiles" entry in the Event Viewer left pane. Select the "View" menu and check the
option titled "Show Analytic and Debug Logs".
While four channels are defined, only two are currently in use in Windows 7.
SyncLog Channel
================
This channel is of the "Analytic" type as defined by the Windows Event viewer. Because this is an "Analytic" channel, you must enable the
channel before events are generated to the associated log. To enable this channel, right click on the "SyncLog" entry in the left pane of the Event Viewer. Select the "Enable Log"
option.
This may also be configured using the channel’s Properties page, also accessible through the Event Viewer. When you no longer want
to collect SyncLog events, disable the channel using the same method ("Disable Log" option).
The purpose of this channel is to generate events specific to synchronization activities within the Offline Files service.
This may be helpful when questions arise about why a particular item is or is not being synchronized or questions about why a particular
sync operation is failing.
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File Synchronization

I am looking for a way to synchronize files from an OS X server to Windows clients. The feature ideally will operate similar to Offline Files in Windows.
What options do I have for this with an OS X Snow Leopard Server?
Thanks,
Arman

You might take a look at Chronosync from Econ Technology. I see the price has gone up to $40 dollars, but once you buy a license you can update forever. I recently wrote them to get a new license and they sent me one with no problem (do save the email they send you, my email address has changed several times over the years, but with a copy of my previous emails from them everything was fine).
http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html
I just now used it to sync a folder in my home directory to the FAT32 drive I share with my Vista installation. You can customize things any way want: synchronize deletions or not, and many other options as well. When you run a particular sync of a folder you save it, then the next time you want to do the same thing just double click the saved sync file. It is incredibly fast when you do it that way.
Francine
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Offline Files Do Not Sync Correctly or Show Error

I have a problem with files not syncing correctly and not showing errors. The client station is running Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1 Build 7601: Service Pack 1). A clear example of the problem is listed below:
On January 9 the laptop was connected to the server with the shared folder. Three files in that folder were open (in Notepad) on another computer running Windows XP. That computer does not have offline access setup for any folders.
After the files were closed on the Windows XP computer, the Windows 7 computer was shut down and physically disconnected from the network.
On January 10 I was working offline with the Windows 7 computer and noticed that the files did not include the changes made on January 9. Since the changes were minor, I was not concerned and continued working offline for several days.
When I returned to the office on January 20, I reconnected to the network and opened the Sync Center expecting to see sync errors for the files in question, instead the conflict Window showed "There are currently no sync conflicts."
When I attempted to open the files, I found they were the version saved from the Windows XP computer on January 9. I quickly disconnected the Windows 7 computer from the network and was able to find the offline version of the files in the \Windows\CSC
directory and copied them to another location.
What causes this error and what steps can I take to ensure all sync problems are displayed, instead of having the system revert to out of date files without warning me?
Thanks for your help

Hi,
I noticed that when the files finished on Windows XP PC, Windows 7 PC is not connected to the network, and Windows 7 PC was stayed offline(No connection to the network folder) until January 20,
right?
If I understand correctly, the files on Windows 7 PC have no connections to perform a sync. On Windows 7,
Background Sync runs at regular intervals as a background task to automatically synchronize and reconcile changes between the client computer and the server. IT administrators can configure synchronization intervals and block out times. With
this feature, users no longer must worry about manually synchronizing their data with the server when working offline.
More details, please check the below MS articles:
What's New in Offline Files
How the synchronization in Windows 7 Offline Files works
How to schedule Synchronizations in Windows 7
If any further assistance needed, please feel free to contact us.
Best regards
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Removing redirected {{My Documents}} and offline files

We have a situation where several of our laptop users, about 100, have their {{My Documents}} folder redirected to a network share and that share is made available offline to them. I have three things I need to do:
1. redirect their {{My Documents}} folder back to the default location
2. Turn off the available offline for these folders on the network share
3. Move the data that is in the network share to the local PC in the default location for {{My Documents}}
For #1 I can change the registry to point back to the default locations.
For #2 I think I can use the group policy under Computer Configuration > policies > Administrative Template > Network > Offline Files. But I'm not sure which setting(s) to use
For #3 I think I can use the group policy under Computer Configuration > policies > Administrative Template > Network > Offline Files with settings for synchronize all offline files when logging on or off.
Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish these tasks?

> For #1 I can change the registry to point back to the default locations.
Only if you have a way to copy the data... Unless you use FR to redirect
back, you have to take care of copying existing data on your own.
Why not creating a GPO that simply redirects to the local profile?
> For #2 I think I can use the group policy under Computer Configuration >
> policies > Administrative Template > Network > Offline Files. But I'm
> not sure which setting(s) to use
You can disable offline availability on the server side (in the share
settings). Simple manual task :)
Or "do not make redirected folders automatically available offline" -
but this won't help since they ARE already available offline.
> For #3 I think I can use the group policy under Computer Configuration >
> policies > Administrative Template > Network > Offline Files with
> settings for synchronize all offline files when logging on or off.
If it works, yes. But this is only supported up to XP, not since Vista
and above...
The best solution I think is a script that leverages the
win32_offlinefiles provider to check for items that are not in sync,
then triggers a sync and reports success/failure to a log or a database.
But that's way out of the scope of a GP forum.
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Excel 2010 changes relative link paths to absolute in files synced with Offline Files in Windows 7

Hello! I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this problem: I have a large number of Excel 2010 and 2003 files in a folder on my file server. This whole folder is also synced to my computer using Offline Files in Windows 7. I have a lot of references between
cells in different Excel files, and all referenced workbooks are physically in the same folder. This all works nicely when I create these files at work - all file paths referenced in the cells are created as relative paths and the documents open correctly.
This is, I understand, the expected and default behavior when Excel creates links. When I edit these files at home, nothing seems odd until I get back to work and sync these files back to the file server. At this point, I discovered that Excel 2010 has, when
I saved the files while away from the corporate network, changed /all/ the cell references in any offline-edited Excel files to point at absolute paths, and that these absolute paths point to somewhere in my %APPDATA% structure. So whenever I come to work
and I try to open an Excel file that I have recently worked with offline, I get a bunch of error messages about referenced files that are missing, although clearly they exist in the same folder as the file I've opened, and I must edit all the file references
again, whereupon they are again created correctly as relative paths (since all files exist in the same folder), which are promptly mangled into absolute C:\....\Offline Files\.....\..... paths whenever I save them at home (and since that works too, I don't
notice it again until I come back to work and the offline files are synced back to the real network location). This seems to be a case of Windows 7's Offline Files not being able to fool Excel 2010 into believing it is working on a file server - apparently
Excel 2010 can see through the fakery and decides on it's own to "fix" the problem (which obviously isn't a problem since the paths are relative to begin with) by saving the paths as absolute paths instead. Yes, really clever, Excel. The exepected behavior
according to MSKB is that links are created as relative paths, so why does it change to absolute whenever Offline Files are involved? I know Offline Files only syncs, it doesn't actually change the files, so I can conclude that Excel is the program at fault
here. Is there a fix for this, or a known workaround? Because frankly, this bug makes it impossible for me to work in any advanced manner with linked Excel files. The sad thing is that this worked perfectly fine with Office 2003 and Windows XP. Is there a
patch for this problem that I might have missed (I am running the latest Service Pack and I get Office updates from Microsoft Update). If not, is there a workaround I can use to prevent Excel from corrupting my links when I edit the files offline?

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How do I prevent offline files from syncing accross WAN

I have multiple sites connected via smaller WAN links (1.5 meg). I am trying to prevent any Offline Folder Syncing across the WAN.
When users travel to other sites there is an issue where their laptop wants to sync their MyDocs folder across the WAN. Since the user has several Gig of Data at the remote site this could take all day and can consumes all of our bandwidth between
the sites. This doesn't happen unless the users have their MyDocs folder set to 'make available for Offline Use'.
The users MyDocs folder is automatically redirected to a network file server at the users main location.
I have tried setting the Network Transparency to 64 ms (64) but that doesn't seem to help. Normal latency between sites (based off of a ping) is 75-100 ms (unless under heavy load).
Do you have any suggestions or recommendations? I tried looking at the below technote but I couldn't seem to get a setting that made this issue go away.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff633429(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_EnablingTransparentCaching
Any help you can offer will greatly be appreciated.
Thank you

Hi,
The article you looking at is not for preventing the offline file sync. So what's your requirement? If you don't want the offline file sync, just disable the it in the sync center:
1. Open the Control Panel, click on the Sync Center icon.
2. In the left pane, click on the Manage offline files link.
3. Click on the Disable offline files button.
4. Click on OK and restart the computer(see screenshot below).
If you want to sync the offline file, the guide you refer is the optimal solution for you. Since your file is too big. However, I suggest you sync it completely if you really need it when slow network or disconnection from the Server. It won't copy
the whole file every time. It just sync the new version of the file when it checked the file has be changed.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

Recover Deleted Offline File in Window's 7

Documents that were suppose to sync with the server had not synced in months. The filess I am sure were being saved to the offline file cache. The offline file cache was deleted by using microsoft hotfix 50561 (kb230738), reinitalizing the cache and correcting
the save path. The documents are very important. I researched and found the xp tool for recovering deleted offline files. csccmd.exe by using the command
csccmd.exe /extract /target:c:\docs /recurse
Is There a tool like this for windows 7? is there a way to recover the lost files. Previous versions and system restore was not enabled and I have not been able to enable then.

Hi ShaneC_76,
Thanks for the post!
Please refer to<cite>
</cite>Windows Offline Files.
Check the 10. Restoring Offline Files In Windows Vista and 7.
Regards,
Miya
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Hi ,How can I get a list of all laptops or users with folder direction enabled or offline files enabled, be it sccm or poerwshell . i have struggled for a week.

Hi ,how can I get a list of all laptops or users with folder direction enabled or offline files enabled, be it sccm
or poerwshell . i have struggled for a week
tchocr

Hi,
There is no such PowerShell command can achiev this. Maybe you can use a script to get the user name with folder redirection enabled. However, I am not familiar with writing script, and it would be better for you to ask in script forum below for professional
assistance:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=ITCG&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
Best Regards,
Mandy
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How can I get a list of all laptops or users with folder direction enabled or offline files enabled, be it sccm or poerwshell . i have struggled for a week.

How can I get a list of all laptops or users with folder direction enabled or offline files enabled, be it sccm or poerwshell . i have struggled for a week.

Hi,
There is no such PowerShell command can achiev this. Maybe you can use a script to get the user name with folder redirection enabled. However, I am not familiar with writing script, and it would be better for you to ask in script forum below for professional
assistance:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=ITCG&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
Best Regards,
Mandy
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact [email protected]

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