Re: Synchronisation of OffLine Files

From: Ian Henderson (ianhendersonis_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:20:15 +0000 (UTC)

Hi Anando

Thanks for the tip. The problem that I currently have is that for some
reason the system seems to be hell-bent on synchronising the whole of my
home folder, which is about 5Gb worth of stuff. If I try to right-click on
a folder to select "Make Available Offline", that option is greyed out. It
doesn't matter whether I try to do it through the file menu, or the
right-click context menu - it doesn't let me select the option at all.

Is there a reason for this?

Ian
"Anando [MS-MVP]" <anando@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OLntag26EHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Ian,
>
> You can setup specific files to be synchronised so that they are available
> when you are offline. You can get more information about offline files
> here:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/learnmore/offlinefiles.mspx
>
> --
>
> Anando
> Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
> http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
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>
> Folder customizations
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>
> Protect your PC!
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>
> "Ian Henderson" <ianhendersonis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cqmo3f$85t$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>>I have a laptop, installed with XP Professional 2002 SP2. When I'm at
>>home,
>> it's connected to my home network (Windows 2000).
>>
>> I am a computer programmer by trade, and frequently do work at home,
>> rather
>> than stay late at the office. Also, I am a keen amateur genealogist, and
>> I
>> want to be able to set up my offline files so that my genealogy research
>> files (which live on my server) are automatically synchronised between
>> the
>> server and the laptop at log on/off time. The problem is, I only seem to
>> be
>> able to select my entire home folder, which I don't want, since there are
>> a
>> lot of files in there that would take an age to sync.
>>
>> I suppose I really have two questions:
>>
>> 1. Is it possible to set up the offline files synchronisation so that it
>> doesn't attempt to synchronise my entire home folder, and it's
>> sub-folders?
>> 2. Is it then possible to select individual folders within my home
>> folder
>> for individual synchronisation?
>>
>> I hope someone can help me with this.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian Henderson
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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