Questions tagged [offline-files]

For questions related specifically to the Offline Files feature of Microsoft Windows.

Offline Files is a feature of Microsoft Windows which makes a local copy of files on network shares. When the computer is disconnected from the network, files in the network folders which have been enabled for offline access can still be accessed. When the computer is reconnected, the changed files are synced in the background.

More information

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/understanding-offline-files

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How to Move Offline Files Cache in Windows 7?

On Vista systems, I've been using these instructions to relocate the "Offline Files Cache" from its default location of c:\csc. Works great. However, these instructions do not work on Windows 7. There is small discussion about the issue going on on…
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Windows 10 sdk offline installer?

Isn't there any offline installer available for the Windows 10 sdk? All I can found is 1.2 MB sized sdksetup.exe file which requires an Internet connection to install. If there available, please provide the link.
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How to save firefox addons for offline installation

I wish to save firefox addons & extenstions and install it offline, Is it possible to save the addons and install it later offline?
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How to re-enable green Offline Files icon in Windows 7

I have a few folders on a network share that I have set up to always be available offline using Sync Center. The sync works fine, but Windows no longer indicates which folders I've enabled sync on. It used to indicate these by displaying a sync…
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Unable to completely disable Offline Files feature for Windows 7 in GPO

I have been trying to completely disable the offline files feature for all the W7 PCs on the domain that I manage. I have been unable to. I do not want this feature as it creates unwanted, largely unnecesary network traffic every time a computer…
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Offline files - Access Denied

I do some consulting work, so for my home / home office network I'm using Windows SBS 2008 server, with Windows 7 clients on my desktop and PC. I have user folder redirection since I've setup SBS, and things have been working fine. The Windows 7…
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Extract files from CSC (offline files) folder

Is there a way to extract files from the c:\windows\csc folder in Windows 7 professional?
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Windows Offline Files - where's the information stored?

Where can I find and manipulate the information which files and folders have been marked as "Always Available Offline" without using Windows Explorer? I don't want or need to access the offline files\folders themselves, I just want to remotely set…
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How can I reduce the CPU usage of Offline Files?

Whenever I have the Offline Files service running, there is a constant 25% CPU usage on svchost.exe (this is a quad core, so that means it's using up one core). This, in turn, triples the power consumption and keeps the machine hot... I do have…
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Is there any way to use google translate offline on pc?

I want to use google translate on the laptop without wi-fi. Is there any way to download that, or something like that to use google translate offline? like just download that two languages you want to translate to each other
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Where are scheduled tasks stored in an offline Windows 10 partition/hard drive?

I found this similar question: Where are scheduled tasks stored in an offline windows 10 image?, which however is about finding the tasks in an image file of a Windows installation. I am looking for a way to find the tasks (and possibly delete some…
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Troubleshooting Windows offline files "Status: offline (no connection)"

A laptop computer running Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 is accessing several shares on a Linux/Samba server via UNC paths. On one of these shares, some folders have been made available offline. This works fine most of the time. Sometimes however…
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Windows 7 sync (offline files): how to ignore .tmp files

I use Windows 7 sync (offline files) to synchronize my laptop with a server work folder. However, sync center is giving me "sync conflicts" on the .tmp files created by Excel and Word etc. It is not a major deal breaker, but still annoying. Is there…
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"Always available offline" option missing on one network drive in Windows 7

My network setup at home has 2 network storage devices on the network. The one is for media content on a Popcorn Hour A-110 and the other is a D-Link DNS-320 in RAID 1 configuration for business files. When I access these network drives and right…
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Make one out of many folders available offline with Windows 7

We have a user who is using large files. Instead of working on the network he is copying the files to his local machine for better performance. This isn't ideal as it's an error-prone manual process to keep the documents synced. I have been looking…
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