Windows 7 offline files do not sync real time while online?

I have network folders setup for use offline. When im online and another user deletes files from those folders, i dont see those deletions until i reboot or force a manual sync. How do you make that to show real time. So that when another user deletes files
in folders i have set to use offline... however im online connected/authenticated to the network, i can see those changes real time.
thanks,

Wow, nearly two years since this question was posted and still no worthwhile contribution from Microsoft. 
We are also seeing behavior similar to this.  We're running Windows 7 clients on a SBS 2011 network.  We are not doing folder redirection, but rather we have users taking certain file shares offline to work from home or on the road (works much
better/faster than the VPN).  However, when they get back to the office occasionally they find themselves editing the same file another user is, or referring another user to check out a file they created while offline which is not actually in the share.
Turns out their PC is using the local cache and not the network cache for some file access, but it insists that the user is working online.  Typically if the user forces a manual sync and resolves any conflicts or errors that arise, they can be 99 percent
sure they are working online for real, but without double-checking against open files on the server there's really no way to know for sure.  This has absolutely destroyed user confidence in this technology which used to work OK (where this is concerned
anyway - it still had some flaws) in Windows XP. 
I saw a post in the partner forum where a moderator basically said "oh yeah, I can totally reproduce that in my lab and that's a shame...try Sharepoint."  Absurd.
Seems like Microsoft is basically taking the stance that Offline Files is only worth using for folder redirection where only one user is likely to be using the files.  If that's the case then as long as the data syncs eventually it's probably not
a huge deal that this happens.  If, however, you're using Offline Files to sync a shared directory this can have disastrous consequences with documents being edited simultaneously for hours or even days before finally someone realizes the problem and
then one user or the other gets to redo their changes.
If they can't make them work right, then they could at least give us more transparencey so the user can see what's going on.  I hated the stupid "you are now working offline" popups in Windows XP as much as the next guy, but I'd kill to get them
back now, if only to avoid this stuff.  When a user browses to their share that's been made "always available offline" and it says "Offline status: Online" then it should be using files from the LAN, not the cache.

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