Re: Offline folders

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Ard Westeneng wrote:
> Thanks for your reaction.
>
> There was no synchronisation to the server. What happened, I think,
> is that according to the policy, offline folders was switched off, so
> the offline folders on the workstation where deleted.

Ouch.

>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> Ard Westeneg wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> One of our clients has a Windows XP Prof laptop. A few months ago he
>>> logged on to a Windows 2003 SBS, with off-line folders (My
>>> Documents) enabled.
>>> A few weeks later, off-line folders where disabled bij a GPO.
>>> Last week, he logged on to the server once, he did some things,
>>> logged off and went home with his laptop. At home he turned on his
>>> laptop and found out, that My Documents was empty.
>>> I checked out the folder c:\windows\csc. There are about 1100 files
>>> in this folder, but they have no extension and weird names. I
>>> renamed one to test.doc and was able to open th document.
>>> Is there a way to "repair" this for all documents?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Ard Westeneng
>>> VH Automatisering
>>> The Netherlands
>>
>> You aren't supposed to be opening up files from the cache that way -
>> you'd have to know what the file was created with, in order to
>> rename it, but you can rename *.* to *.doc , etc, in a command line
>> even.
>>
>> Did his files sync successfully to the server before the admins
>> disabled this?
>>
>> Offline files is a curse, I tell you. I don't use it at all. There
>> are better options.


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