tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610Fri, 09 Oct 2015 16:35:44 +0000Windowshttp://www.technlg.net/noreply@blogger.com (Shirisha)Blogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-428059990839291235Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:40:00 +00002015-01-12T15:23:06.602-08:00Windows Offline Files has got its own user interface to disable the feature. But for the people who prefer to do it by hacking the registry or for the people who want to do it programatically using batch script I am listing below the registry way of disabling offline files. Since Offline files has changed a lot in Vista and Windows 7 when compared with XP I am writing separate steps for each of these http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/disable-offline-files-registry-key.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-664026546523660206Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:40:00 +00002015-01-12T15:23:32.472-08:00Windows Some users complain that Client Side Cache(CSC or Offline Files) is slowing down logon and logoff as it tries to synchronize all the locally cached files with the server ones. The default synchronization does quick sync which means that only the files that have been changed locally will be synced to the server. But if you are seeing delayed logon/logoff then it could be because a Full sync ishttp://www.technlg.net/2010/08/disable-logon-logoff-synchronization.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-7680797473991675968Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:40:00 +00002015-01-12T15:23:41.629-08:00Windows Offline files provides a configurable setting called Slow Link policy, which, if enabled, will reduce the network traffic between client and server. Suppose you are working from home and are connected to your office network. If your network connection is very slow, the time CSC takes to synchronize the local cache with the server files will be huge. In such cases, you might want http://www.technlg.net/2010/09/offlinefiles-slowlinkspeed-registry-key.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-9084866710857720716Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:40:00 +00002015-01-08T15:20:39.854-08:00Windows Mobsync.exe is a synchronization utility which is shipped along with Windows OS. This utility is responsible for synchronizing(syncing) offline files cache and any offline html pages. Mobsync.exe can be found in [systemdrive]:\windows\system32 folder. If the sytem drive is C: then it can be found in C:\windows\system32 folder. This synchronizing utility can be launched from Run window or fromhttp://www.technlg.net/2010/10/what-is-mobsyncexe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-3380737478595601532Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:39:00 +00002015-01-12T15:24:09.686-08:00Windows CSCCMD  is a client side cache utility which can be used for various Client Side Cache(CSC) management operations. Some of the operations we can perform using this tool are enabling/disabling offline files, pinning files for offline availability, listing the files/folders that are already cached, forcing a share to go offline etc. But all these operations are doable even without csccmd tool. We http://www.technlg.net/2009/10/csccmd-moveshare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-7156325473521431026Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:39:00 +00002015-01-12T15:24:20.651-08:00Windows This article describes the steps for recovering offline files from the client machine when the server share is inaccessible or no longer exists. If the user who made the shares offline can access the machine then recovering the files is pretty easy. Open Explorer from the user's login account, click on Tools in the menu bar, click on Folder options and then offline files tab. Now click on 'Viewhttp://www.technlg.net/2010/10/recovering-offline-files-cache-csccmd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-2324682745379674461Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:39:00 +00002015-01-12T15:24:28.548-08:00Windows What is C:\Windows\CSC folder? What does it store? C:\Windows\CSC folder is the one where Windows keeps the cache of the files and folders for which offline files feature is enabled. Offline feature is present in Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 OS editions. Windows treats this folder as system file and does not display them in default configuration. To see this folder you need to open http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/cwindowscsc-folder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-4389566154296081977Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:38:00 +00002015-01-12T15:24:42.799-08:00Windows In Vista and Widows 7 Offline Files feature works with the help of a service name called 'Offline Files'. This service is introduced in Windows Vista; Windows XP does not have any such service associated with Offline Files. What is offline files service? What does it do? In my understanding offline files service manages the local cache, invokes periodic synchronization of the cache with http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/offline-files-service.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-3343261494232939337Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:37:00 +00002015-01-12T15:24:59.534-08:00Windows We can delete existing Offline files(CSC) cache by modifying FormatDatabase registry value and rebooting the machine. Steps are given below. Windows XP/Server 2003 create a registry value 'FormatDatabase' of type REG_DWORD under the node \HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache. Set its value to 1. Reboot the machine From command line, you can set FormatDatabase to 1 http://www.technlg.net/2010/07/formatdatabase-registry-key.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-5985078590158554111Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:36:00 +00002015-01-12T15:26:06.523-08:00Windows Windows enables users to redirect some of the user folders like My Documents, My pictures, My applications etc to network shares. Offline files is, by default, enabled for redirected folders. We do not need to explicitly mark them for offline availability. So when you redirect your My Documents folder to some network share and even if the server goes down you still would be able to access the http://www.technlg.net/2009/11/offline-files-and-folder-redirection-xp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-6975678549112094049Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:36:00 +00002015-01-12T15:26:20.360-08:00Windows DatabaseLocation DatabaseLocation is offline files related registry parameter and it exists under the following node. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache This key contains the path of the folder where information about offline files is stored. Note that with the default settings you will not see the above key in the registry. By default offline filesdata is stored in C:\http://www.technlg.net/2009/11/offline-files-registry-keys-xp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-5327172616561488370Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:28:00 +00002015-01-12T15:26:28.112-08:00Windows On Windows XP/2003 machines we can delete or reinitialize offline files/CSC cache in any of the following ways. Through User Interface : Open My computer from start menu Click on Tools Click on Folder Options Select Offline Files tab Press CTRL+Shift and click on Delete Files.   By changing the registry:  Add a new value named FormatDatabase of type REG_DWORD under HKLM\Software\http://www.technlg.net/2010/09/delete-offline-files-cache-windows-xp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-55349577299620509Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:28:00 +00002015-01-12T15:26:37.094-08:00Windows Though offline files is a very useful feature there are many scenarios where the feature does not work as expected. One such issue is discussed below. When you try to mark a file/folder for offline availability(i.e right click the folder and click on 'Make available offline') you may get an error message 'Errors occurred while windows was synchronizing your data' like below. If you click onhttp://www.technlg.net/2010/09/offline-files-access-denied-error.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-2221837005134133023Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:24:00 +00002015-01-12T15:26:44.234-08:00Windows We know that in order to use a network folder in offline mode, we need to mark that folder for offline cache by right clicking and then selecting "Make available offline". But we can have few special folders which does not require this step and are still available offline. These files/folders are called administratively assigned offline files/folders or admin pinned files. The list of these http://www.technlg.net/2009/11/administratively-assigned-offline-files.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-7441177479378051074Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:23:00 +00002015-01-12T15:27:40.816-08:00Windows If you have upgraded from XP to Windows7 you will see lot of changes in offline files feature. It works more robustly when compared to XP.  Below are the steps to enable offline files in Win7. Open Control Panel from Start button. Open Sync center (If you don't see sync center select 'Small Icons' in the View by options in the right upper part of Control Panel window.) Now click on 'http://www.technlg.net/2010/02/enable-offline-files-in-windows-7.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-31533234529755649Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:09:00 +00002015-01-12T15:27:47.192-08:00Windows If you have any question for which you have not found satisfying answer in this blog please post it below in the comments box. You can expect a prompt answer from me. Thanks for visiting the blog. http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/offline-files-user-questions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)82tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-866830062839388154Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:34:00 +00002015-01-12T15:27:54.151-08:00Windows Windows OS provides GUI to enable or disable offline files feature. For those who want to disable offline files from a batch script, below is a tip how to do this. Windows XP/Server 2003 In Windows XP offline files can be disabled from command line using the below command. csccmd.exe /disable Csccmd.exe 1.0 version can be downloaded as part of Windows Resource Kit tools which is available athttp://www.technlg.net/2010/10/disable-offline-files-from-command-line.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-5488090301147356066Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:54:00 +00002015-01-12T15:28:00.736-08:00Windows Windows OS provides GUI to enable or disable offline files feature. For those who want to enable offline files from a batch script, below is a tip how to do this. Windows XP/Server 2003 In Windows XP offline files can be enabled from command line using the below command. csccmd.exe /enable To know where to download this csccmd.exe from read Download csccmd.exe Windows Vista/ Windows 7 http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/enable-offline-files-from-command-line.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-7384946537192224845Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:00:00 +00002015-01-12T15:28:07.755-08:00Windows Csccmd.exe tool version 1.1 is not released to the public and can only be obtained by contacting Microsoft product support services. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884739 for more information on this. This tool is also available at the below location. http://www.jacksontechnical.com/pubfiles/csccmd_v1.1.zip However CSCCMD 1.0 was released to public as part of http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/csccmdexe-download.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-3734027500672299153Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:06:00 +00002015-01-12T15:28:16.820-08:00Windows If you are not seeing 'Manage offline files' window in Windows 7 Home edition it's because of the fact that Windows 7 does not support offline files feature. Offline files feature is supported in only the following Windows 7 editions. Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Professional. The following Windows 7 editions does not support offline files. Windows 7 Home http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/windows7-home-premium-offline-files.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-6829717958573744156Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:14:00 +00002015-01-12T15:28:47.499-08:00Windows In Windows 7, Offline Files can be disabled as per the below steps. Open Control Panel from Start button. Open Sync center (If you don't see sync center select 'Small Icons' in the View by options in the right upper part of Control Panel window.) Now click on 'Manage offline files' . This will open offline files window where you can configure the operation of offline files. Clickhttp://www.technlg.net/2010/03/disable-offline-files-in-windows-7.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-2348924797028279225Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:48:00 +00002015-01-12T15:28:54.359-08:00Windows Offline files feature allows to access network shares even in offline mode i.e even if the machine is not connected to the network. To use this feature first thing we need to do is enabling offline files feature. This can be done as explained in the post How to enable offline files in Vista. and How to enable offline files in Windows 7. Once offline files is enabled, we need to mark http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/network-share-available-offline-win7.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-4982707356703927496Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:02:00 +00002015-01-12T15:29:02.222-08:00Windows When we try to mark a large sized network folder for offline availability Offline files/CSC may give an error saying "Incorrect functioin: Unable to make available offline".  This happens intermittently and the problem may disappear when we try to offline the share again. Microsoft confirmed that it is a bug in offline files and also released a hotfix to resolve this problem. For http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/offline-files-incorrect-function-error.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-3694350308651233859Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:16:00 +00002015-01-12T15:29:14.644-08:00Windows Client Side Cache or CSC is just another term for the Offline Files feature in Windows operating systems. It's most widely known as offline files only. But the cache location is named CSC. And this can be located in C:\Windows\CSC. We can disable Client Side Cache using the in-build graphical user interface(GUI) or through registry hacks also. Both UI and registry methods are different in http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/disable-client-side-cache.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759978259983769610.post-8252069221040902234Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:15:00 +00002015-01-17T21:59:23.015-08:00Windows In Windows XP we can disable offline files/Client side cache in the following way.  (Initial steps are pretty much the same as Enabling offline files) Open My computer from start menu Click on Tools from the menu bar.  Now select Folder options and then click on Offline Files tab in the Folder options window Now unselect the check button 'Enable Offline files' and close the windows.  To http://www.technlg.net/2010/10/disable-offline-files-windows-xp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Techblogger)0