Windows 7 Offline Files Recovery

Thanks for all your help!
Facts: Domain Network, Server 2012, Folder Redirection Enabled (Docs Only), Shadow Copy Enabled, Windows 7 Clients
I have a domain user who was not syncronizing with the server through Folder Redirection. We deployed a GPO to disable Offline files and sure enough, she reported that her files went missing. We looked at the Shadow copies only to find that the folders are
in fact empty.
Attempts: Shadow Copy, HBCD (to access the CSC folder offline, turned up empty)
Are there any tools or techniques that I am missing here to recover her files? Remember this is Windows 7.
All your help is much appreciated.

Hello all,
Just thought I should come back and share my findings.
FolderRedirection can be a useful tool, but can be a pain if used or removed improperly. I found that permissions can play a role in Syncing documents, if permissions are modified for whatever reason in the server, it will not always sync properly and the
user will mostly not notice. This will cause your system to hold "temp" files on your pc.
I had success with Recuva for file recovery but mostly the classic HBCD, this allowed me to browse the contents of CSC without hassles, and move to the local drive. The particular machine in question did not turn out successful, but these methods worked
for the remaining.
Thanks to all for your help.

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Windows Offline Files / Sync Center - 99GB?? bug?

Currently have a laptop connected to a domain where the user's My Documents folder is set up in Sync Center... while the laptop is on the network everything is fine and dandy, however once the user disconnects a good portion of the files and folder show
a gray X indicating that they haven't sync'd over a local copy. When going into the 'Disk usage' tab for Sync Center, everything shows as 99GB used, 99GB available and the drive size is 999GB. If I do a manual sync I see that it fails due to not enough offline
cache space. Attempts to change it with the 'Change size' button have failed as nothing shows up when I click on that button. Free disk space shows up as roughly 24GB free and Windows Scan Disk reveals nothing wrong with the drive. Help!

Hi,
Did this issue occur before ? Did the machines in the domain share the same issue with you?
1.If the issue occured occasionally, I recommend you to manually re-initialize the offline files database/client-side cache following this link:
How to re-initialize the offline files cache and database in Windows XP (Win7 takes with the same path)
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/230738?wa=wsignin1.0
2.This issue may be caused by the group policy,please check the following policies according to the path.If you have no permission to change the policies ,please contact with your administrator.
Here is the policies path:
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Offline Files
Limit disk space used by off line files
Default cache size
Prohibit user configuration of Offline files
Here is the link for reference:
Fixing OffLine File Cache Problems Using Group Policy
http://www.falconitservices.com/support/KB/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=158 (link from official website would be better)
NOTE: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web site. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites.
3.If the issue persists, please check the Event Viewer for related error information.
This path may be helpful:
Event Viewer \Applications and Services\Microsoft\Windows\Offline Files
Best regards

Working with Windows offline files

Hello,
I'm desperately trying to make Adobe bridge and other applications work faster on our company's graphics design team's computer. They work with files off a company NAS drive and loading and saving files is slow. I've enabled Windows offline files for the entire folder containing their work and synchronised it to a test computer; all their files are now also stored locally. However, they're reporting that Bridge loads even slower than before. I'm out of ideas; those files need to be available to all 3 members of our design team but I still need to make loading and working with said files faster.
Does anyone have any ideas or has anyone else tried adobe products with Windows offline files?

You can check some tools mentioned in this URL : http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/backup-and-sync-tools-for-hard-drives/
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Is there any equivalent in OS X to Windows Offline files?

I have been using Offline files in Windows since1999, and today this is the only feature I still haven't found a way to do with a Mac. I need that for work. Is it available with Mac OS X Lion?
Thanks a lot!

lupunus wrote:
CariocaDaGema wrote:
I have been using Offline files in Windows since1999, and today this is the only feature I still haven't found a way to do with a Mac. I need that for work. Is it available with Mac OS X Lion?
Thanks a lot!
If you refer to "offline files" as downloaded websites you may use it quite like in Windows by choose "save as" for the site. It creates a folder and a html file to open in a browser.
Or did I misunderstood your question?
Lupunus
You did, Offline Files (in windows) refers to files stored on a network drive that are mirrored to your local machine (for offline use) and then synchronized back to the network drive when you reconnect.

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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Can't restore Windows 7 file backup in Windows 8.1

Hi There,
This seems to be quite a stupid issue to have but here we go... before installing Windows 8.1 onto my laptop I took a backup of my user files using the Windows 7 backup tool which created me an array of zip files, with a catlog file and a MediaID.bin...
all normal.
I then performed a fresh install of Windows 8.1, deleting the existing Windows 7 partitions.
Having completed the install I'm finding it impossible to restore my Windows 7 backup... I can't even find a function which allows me to browse to a backup location to try and restore!?
The Windows 7 File Recovery tool isn't there any more, and for all intents and purposes "Recovery" doesn't seem to do anything useful... I don't want to restore a system image, just some files.
Can anyone help with my probable stupidity?? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

Well I'm extracting the new backup set and guess what WinRAR 5.01 took care of the long filename problem, with a full video shortly. The long filenames was windowsold. The metro apps have very long names.
To all admins/MS employees after watching the next video, I'm asking for shadow
Darkken to stop repeatedly telling us this does not work when in fact this does.
You really can't read.
Long filenames aren't the issue here. They never were, and I pointed that out several times.
Large files that get split across the set are the problem. As in some files are being split into multiple smaller files pieces that simply extracting and overwriting each other doesn't work.
Seriously, I give up. You simply do not hear people, you're too concerned with phantom issues that no one but you has brought up, and you don't take the time to actually pay any attention to what people are saying.
The article YOU posted even mentions these files, and advises people to ruin them and make them useless.
My problem was long filenames, anyways I have fully extracted and completed the backup set using winzip. For larger files I use this method.
http://www.pcandtablet.com/windows-8-1-system-backup-and-restore/1552/how-to-use-windows-7-file-recovery-in-windows-8-1-a.html
Re: How to use Windows 7 file recovery in windows 8.1?
Windows 8.1 no longer has Windows Backup, because it has been replaced by the File History feature. In Windows 8, you could still access the Windows 7 backup/restore utilities, but these have been removed in Windows 8.1.
When you create a backup using Windows Backup, you should use the Restore Files wizard to restore the files. If you can't use the Restore Files wizard (for example, when you're using a computer that’s not running Windows Vista or Windows 7), you can manually
extract files from a backup by following these steps:
1. Open the location where your backup is saved.
The files in your backup are saved as zip files.
Right-click the backup file (a file with the Windows Backup icon and the name of your computer), and then click Open.
To manually extract files that are larger than 200 MBs
If a file is larger than 200 MBs, it will be split into multiple zip files. You will need to extract and then combine these files following these steps:
1. Open the location where your backup is saved.
Find the zip files that contain the file you want to extract. For example, if you're trying to extract a video file named BirthdayParty, you would find the zip files that contain files with that name.
Create a folder on your desktop to extract the files to.
Since the files all have the same name, you'll need to rename them as you extract them.
Extract the first file into the folder you created on your desktop and then rename the file.
Repeat this step until you have extracted all of the files, making sure that you name them similarly. For example, if you have four files for the BirthdayParty video, name them BirthdayParty1, BirthdayParty2, BirthdayParty3, and BirthdayParty4.
Open the Command Prompt window by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Command Prompt, and then, in the list of results, click Command Prompt.
Type the following command: copy /b filename*.file_extension new_filename.file_extension
For example, copy /b BirthdayParty*.avi BirthdayPartyAll.avi
WINZIP OR WINRAR WILL WORK FOR YOU, IF NEEDED TO BE. VHD FILE WILL WORK FOR YOU IF YOU CREATED THE IMAGE. I HAVE NO PROBLEM RESTOREING 10 GIG ISO SPLIT INTO 5 FILES. I HAVE EVERY IMPORTANT FILE I
HAD IN WINDOWS 7 NOW TO USE WITH WIN8.1
Stop telling people this does not work. IT does. I do suggest anyone getting ready to install windows 8.1 to make a VHD file. You'll have less work to do. This method is for emergencys only.As the person
asking the question asked. I supplied the answer for him/her to get the files back

OS X support for offline files

Dear all,
I have a mixed environment of workstations running both OS X and Windows that connect to file shares hosted on Windows file servers. In order to be able to manage the storage space effectively, tape based archiving was implemented using Symantec's Enterprise Vault for File System Archiving. EV and many other archiving solutions use the Windows Offline file attribute to mark a file that has been archived off and install a filter driver into Windows so that archived files can be recalled directly from Windows Explorer without requiring additional software (this is also known as a reparse point). Please note that this is different from how Microsoft intended offline files to be used for synchronising between a roaming laptop and a network share (see KB 312717).
OS X does not have any support for offline files natively, both for how Microsoft intended it to be used and for use with archiving software as a reparse point. There are a couple of offerings on the market which add the required functionality to OS X, but recent updates to OS X have rendered these offerings non-functional:
10.6.7 - I understand that Apple replaced the SMB/CIFS modules with their own code. At this point, it no longer became possible to recall archived files using said software offerings, when connecting to a Windows file server via SMB. See Apple bug ID 10836961.
10.7.4 - a kernel update is included which means said software offerings are now not able to block the icon preview in Finder. The icon preview in Finder causes archived material to be recalled which we do not want it to do (imagine the problem when using tape as the archiving platform - this will cause a huge recall job on the tape drives)
This is going to cause significant difficulties as it effectively means that we can't use archiving with OS X to manage our storage costs.
I'm writing this as I'm hoping that someone will know of a product or solution that is able to work around the 2 difficulties noted above, or that someone from Apple is going to read this and realise that this is a serious problem. The ideal that is required is to add support for the offline files, in particular reparse points, directly into OS X.
Many thanks.
A frustrated storage engineer.

Hi Richard,
We are looking at file archiving here and have the same potential issues. We haven't evaluated this product, but it claims to solve the problem:
http://www.grouplogic.com/enterprise-file-sharing/mac-file-archiving-system/
Good luck
Mark

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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Data file recovery from Windows 7

A Macbook that was running OS X with data files and pictures was taken by someone without their permission.
That person then wiped the hard drive and installed Windows 7.
The Laptop has since been returned to the original owner and to her dismay realizes all her files have been deleted.
Is there any chance of recovering any of her previous OS X data files and pictures before she reinstalls OS X.

Kappy and Limnos are both correct, depending on what was done to the hard drive.
It's most likely that the person who put Windows 7 on the Mac did a quick erase, which would leave all but the first few cylinders of data on the drive untouched.
After changing the partition scheme to NTFS and and installing Win 7, then the data that will be difficult to impossible to recover will be those areas that were written over with the Windows OS files, the swap file it creates, and any other areas of the drive that were written over during that person's use of the Mac.
The first thing you will need to do before you can use either FileSalvage or Data Rescue 3, is boot to the disks the Mac came with, run Disk Utility from the DVD and change the partition back to Mac OS Extended. Neither of these recovery programs will read anything but a Mac drive. As in changing the drive to NTFS, you would only be overwriting the first few cylinders of the drive to do this. Just make sure not to install OS X. Only use the DVD to get the drive back to Mac OS Extended.
Since the drive will have no bootable system on it at this point, you will need to purchase one recovery program or the other on a bootable CD/DVD. The only other option is a bootable external drive so you can try the demo versions before purchasing. The external drive will also need to have enough free space to recover files to.
Now run either recovery program. As mentioned a few times now, getting any data back that was sitting on the areas overwritten with Win 7 are slim to none. But any data on the drive that was never written to during that time can be. What you recover all depends on what was sitting where.

Offline Files sync gives Access Denied on Windows 8.1 Enterprise

A small number of our staff have now been issued with Windows 8.1 Enterprise hybrid tablet computers, however there is a problem with using Offline Files on them - when synchronising, it responds "Access Denied".
The tablets have Windows 8.1 Enterprise with all the latest updates on them. Staff users have a home folder on the network under \\server\staff\homes\departmentname\username which gets mapped to U: and their My Documents is redirected there. The server is currently
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2.
We have tried:
Resetting the Offline Files cache using the FormatDatabase registry key
Using Group Policy Objects to force Offline Files synchronisation at logon and logoff
Clearing the local cached copy of the user's profile from the machine and getting them to log back on to recreate it
Setting up Offline Files event logging to the event viewer - this provides no useful information as it only logs disconnect/reconnect and logoff/logon events
Forcing Group Policy update using gpupdate /force
Forcing synchronisation using PowerShell and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb309189%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
As suggested by http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275461 we gave the All Staff security group Read permissions on F:\Staff (which is the one that is shared as \\server\staff) and then blocked inheritance for folders below that
We also checked the following:
The CSC cache has not been relocated
No error 7023 or event 7023 errors relating to Offline Files are present in the event logs
The Offline Files service is running
The OS is already Windows 8.1 Enterprise, so installing the Pro Pack is not applicable
In HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UserState\UserStateTechnologies\ConfigurationControls all the values are set to 0 and not 1
We do not use System Center Configuration Manager
No errors were found in the Folder Redirection event logs
None of these solved the problem, does anyone have any suggestions?
Here is the error we are seeing:
Thanks,
Dan Jackson (Lead ITServices Technician)
Long Road Sixth Form College
Cambridge, UK

Hi,
Generally speaking, this problem is most probably occurs at File Server Client.
Firstly, please check the sharing file Sync Settings.
Shared file properties\Sharing\Advanced Sharing\Caching
Also check shared file user list, make sure these problematic user account have full permission.
On the other hand, could you able to access to the shared file directly in Windows Explorer?
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Yes, the user can access the shared folder in Windows Explorer. The user has the following permissions:
Traverse Folder/Execute File
List Folder/Read Data
Read Attributes
Read Extended Attributes
Create Files/Write Data
Create Folders/Append Data
Write Attributes
Write Extended Attributes
Delete
Read Permissions
Here is a screenshot of how the Caching settings are set up on the top-level Staff share.

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
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.
Thanks for understanding.
Kate Li
TechNet Community Support

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...

T40 missing or corrupted \windows\system file after recovery process

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Problem to make able Offline File Windows 7

Hi, I need your help to solve this problem whit the offline files.
This is the step-by-step of what i done:
I opened the control panel in windows 7
I Clicked on the sync center icon
I Clicked on the manage offline files link
I Clicked on the enable offline files button
I Restarted the pc
But it doesn’t work out: when I go back to the start on the control panel I find the button “Enable Offline Files” instead of the “Disable Offline Files”.
Can someone tell me why? I need to know what I do wrong.
Tks

Hi,
Did you enable offline files by using an administrator account? Just a confirmation, thanks for your understanding.
In addition, would you please let me know whether the problematic Windows 7 client computer joined to a domain?
If it’s in domain environment, please contact your administrator and confirm if disable “Allow or Disallow use of the Offline Files feature” policy setting (the path in GPME: Computer Configuration-> Policies-> Administrative Templates->
Network-> Offline Files). If disable this policy setting, Offline Files is disabled and users cannot enable it.
Please also refer to following TechNet article and check if can help you.
Configuring New Offline Files Features
for Windows 7 Computers Step-by-Step Guide
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
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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

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