Re: Reset Offline Files

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Hi Andrew,

In My Documents, just click on Tools, then Synchronize, and you should
have two checkboxes relating to where this folder should synchronize
to.

If you deselect the item you no longer want synchronizing this should
resolve your issue.

Hope that does the trick.

Nick


Andrew wrote:
I have a laptop that originally was connected to a server running W2K Server.
The user on the laptop had the My Documents redirected to
\\Server\Personal\User\My Documents and it was set to be available offline

The server was then in place upgraded to SBS2003. As part of the SBS
install, it created the new default user share. We changed the My Documents
redirection to the new default share under SBS 2003 and copied all of the
data over from the Personal\User\ folders.

Now when the user logs in, the Offline Folder Synchronization tries to
synchronize with both the Personal share (which no longer exists) and the new
redirected share which does exist.

How can I either remove the pointer that is trying to synchronize with the
old personal share which no longer exists from the user's Windows XP SP2
laptop? Is there a way to completely reset Offline Folders on a
workstation/laptop back to it never have ever using offline folders before?
I've tried enabling/disabling re-enabling but it still shows the pointer to
the non-existant share.

Please let me know if I explained that well enough. Essentially, I'd like
to reset/clear out the offline folders then set up again to point to only a
single folder and not have it reference any previous offline shares.

I've seen other posts and I am not trying to change anything on the server,
only on the laptop client.

Thanks for your help,

Andrew

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