Disable offline file windows xp

I landed here with the same problem. One of my users kept showing that they are offline even though they are connected to the network and their share is "available".

I upped the quota and it's now online and syncing correctly again after a PC reboot. Simon Wand. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate bit on my laptop and have set up offline files to make a small number of files available when I'm not connected to the network. The problem occurs when I'm connected to my network and I work on any files which are available offline.

Windows seems to open my locally cached copy of the file instead of the network copy so if someone chooses to open the same file at the same time, they don't get the "file in use" message and we each make and save our own amendments to the file.

When I next force a Sync I inevitably get the problem reported and have to manually trawl through both copies of the document to reconcile the changes. This is massively time consuming, and, of course, pointless. How can I make my laptop go to the network copy of the file when online, rather than always go to its cached copy? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :.

Cancel Submit. Sathish S V. Hi Simon Wand, I would suggest you to synchronize the file before start editing and check how it works. Go to Sync Center, click View sync conflicts on the left panel and then you will see a list of conflict files. Right-click the conflicted files and click View option.

Now, you have three options: Keep the version that you created while you were away, Keep the version on the server that someone else edited while you were away, Keep both versions and rename the one that you created. Now, you may already know how to use offline file to sync network files locally in Windows It's very useful for users who want to work with network files, it allows you to access and see them at any time after making them offline on your computer.

However, the steps of it are a little complicated, and if you use it for the first time, you may feel dizzy. In addition, the sync does not always goes smoothly, you may encounter various errors, such as, offline file conflicts, access denied , sync pending, etc. Then, is there any easier way to sync network files and make it offline in Windows 10?

Absolutely yes, you can use a powerful file sync software to complete this task in simple steps. And I will introduce you to one of the best software I have found in the next part. Don't be confused by the word offline files, it has two meanings, a folder to store the files you sync from network to local computer, or a synonym for a file as opposed to a network shared file. In a simple word, after syncing, you will have two copies, one is on the network, the other is on your computer.

Below are some advantages of it:. And set backup data, time and intervals as well. In the first of place, download and install it on your computer. Except for Basic Sync, you can also use the following 3 sync solutions in the advanced version. Try this feature if you change files very frequently or have the need for real-time sharing. If this is the first time to sync network files, you need to add network location first. Then, click the folder-shaped button to select a local drive to receive your network files.

To tweak this task more flexibly, click Schedule Sync and select the sync frequency you think properly. And more you can specify the backup date, time and intervals. Finally, confirm the file sync process and click Start Sync to sync network files locally in Windows This doesn't really 'fix' the problem but I know there is a GPO setting somewhere in the User Configuration section that lets you specify that redirected folders should not automatically be made available offline.

Assuming this still works on Windows 7, if you set that for all of your desktop users then although offline files will still be enabled it won't actually sync anything unless the users manually set it up. Oh and the post that was quoted in the previous post was obviously written by someone who has no clue about group policy - I'm not trying to insult them, I'm just saying don't take their advice. You do not need to run gpupdate on any servers or reboot any servers to get GPO settings to take effect on workstations Chris , you got that right.

Why would I move computers? I wouldn't do that if I placed the GPO in the correct location in the fist place. Anyway, it looks like I'm not alone on this one. It appears many people are having the same problem. I'm having this exact issue and can't resolve it. The only way I've managed to 'fix' it is by opening gpedit on the Windows 7 machines and disabling offline files in the local configuration.

This disables the service and the sync center but I don't really want to do this every time I add a Windows 7 workstation. Any more ideas on this? I was thinking of adding a registry setting that disables the Offline files service via Group Policy I assume this would work? Hopefully it will work! This doesn't appear to have came to a conclusion. I'm experiencing something similar and noticed in Windows 7 the group policy doesn't disable previously enabled offline files use.

IE if you were to go to the "manage offline files" settings that brings up the Offline Files properties box I notice that under the "Enable Offline Files" button a label says "Offline files is currently disabled".

This is working as it should BUT it is only so because I disabled it locally in this case I hit the button. If I were to and I did enable it and then try to disable offline file use by group policy the label does not change but the button will gray out.

This is similar, I suppose, to logging in locally and using GPEdit on the local machine, obviously not what we're going for here, we don't want to have touch each computer.

Just signed up here to add my experience with this problem which i have just solved. I had same situation where GPO for disabling offline files just wasnt applying to the new win7 machines added to the domain and after trying multiple suggestions here and on other websites i decided to see if creating a new GPO from the Win7 machine would have the desired effect and it did!.

First i downloaded and installed the remote administration tools for windows 7 which is available on the microsoft download page. Hope this information is useful to you guys. The above post was most interesting I only touched " Allow or disallow use of offline files feature" Our domain policy does not modify the other above mentioned policies.

Ben, thanks for the input. I've not looked at this in a while. My problem was that syncing would not be disabled even if the correct entries were placed in the computer configuration portion of the respective GPO. I did set the My Documents to point to their Network drive Per your comment on Sam's answer it sounds like a rundown on what Group Policy does and how it works is probably in order. Not having time for that this morning, here's a quick "recipe" that will do what you need.

Assuming that you do not want "Offline Files" turned on any computers in your domain, open the "Forest" node in the left pane of "Group Policy Management", the "Domains" node, and highlight the node representing your domain. In the right pane, double-click the entry "Allow of Disallow use of the Offline Files feature".

Change the radio button to "Disabled" and click "OK". The affected client computers will need to be rebooted for the change to take effect as this is one of the settings that is only applied at boot-time. Sam points you toward the user configuration for Offline Files. Personally, I prefer the computer setting, though it requires a reboot to take effect.

You should learn more about Group Policy when you get a chance. You can do a lot of really, really cool stuff. Fundamentally, just the ability to arbitrarily execute scripts on subsets of remote computers on startup and logon is all you'd ever really need, but Microsoft has put a lot of nice "Window dressing" in the Group Policy system to make it useful for sysadmins of all skill levels.

Getting a good handle on how the particular GPOs are set for a particular user or computer and understanding some of the esoteric features like WMI filtering, filtering by group membership, loopback policy processing is really the only major hurdle in starting to use it.

This is true of all the "Administrative Template" settings which are really just registry settings that Microsoft includes "out of the box". If you apply 3rd-party "Administrtaive Template" settings you may find that they "tattoo" the registry-- i.

That should be a wildly remote possibility, but it's nice to leave things so that it's possible Not knowing anything about the locations of objects in your domain, the easiest way to limit the scope of this GPO is as follows:. Add the affected computer objects as members of this group you have to change the "Object Types" to include computers when using the "Add