Off-line folder nightmare

[Guest Laphan]

Hi All

 

Wondered if you could help.

 

I've just added some old Ergo laptops (still WinXP Pro SP2) to our school

domain and the off-line setup has really affected the performance of these

laptops.

 

FYR, before I joined the laptops to the domain I copied the contents of

their My Docs to the user's home drive on the server, deleted the contents

of the My Docs on the laptops, joined them to the domain and then waited for

the log off process to sync the files on the laptops with the files on the

server.

 

I can appreciate that the first time you log off after joining the domain it

can take ages for the files to sync between the laptop and the server, but

this overly long process seems to be happening each time they log off, as if

it's going through the full sync process everytime.

 

I must confess at first I didn't remove the data from the old workgroup user

account's My Docs and then to my horror found that the sync could not

complete because the laptop HD was full, but I've cleared this data now and

there is 10GB free space.

 

The only thing that I have noticed is that the temporary off-line slider (in

Tools/Folder Options/Off-line files) is only allowing for 1.5GB of data

(some 3% of the drive) but even though I can change this slider and Apply

it, as soon as I go back into the Off-line window the slider goes back to

this 1.5GB setting - what's the point of the slider if you can't change it?

 

I'm really struggling with this off-line setup part and just feel like the

laptop is having to do a complete sync process every log off because it

can't do a complete all in one because the data on the server My Docs is

more than this off-line slider will allow. Am I close to the mark?

 

Thanks

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Off-line folder nightmare

 

Laphan <admin@DontSpam.com> wrote:

> Hi All

>

> Wondered if you could help.

>

> I've just added some old Ergo laptops (still WinXP Pro SP2) to our

> school domain and the off-line setup has really affected the

> performance of these laptops.

>

> FYR, before I joined the laptops to the domain I copied the contents

> of their My Docs to the user's home drive on the server, deleted the

> contents of the My Docs on the laptops, joined them to the domain and

> then waited for the log off process to sync the files on the laptops

> with the files on the server.

>

> I can appreciate that the first time you log off after joining the

> domain it can take ages for the files to sync between the laptop and

> the server, but this overly long process seems to be happening each

> time they log off, as if it's going through the full sync process

> everytime.

>

> I must confess at first I didn't remove the data from the old

> workgroup user account's My Docs and then to my horror found that the

> sync could not complete because the laptop HD was full, but I've

> cleared this data now and there is 10GB free space.

>

> The only thing that I have noticed is that the temporary off-line

> slider (in Tools/Folder Options/Off-line files) is only allowing for

> 1.5GB of data (some 3% of the drive) but even though I can change

> this slider and Apply it, as soon as I go back into the Off-line

> window the slider goes back to this 1.5GB setting - what's the point

> of the slider if you can't change it?

>

> I'm really struggling with this off-line setup part and just feel

> like the laptop is having to do a complete sync process every log off

> because it can't do a complete all in one because the data on the

> server My Docs is more than this off-line slider will allow. Am I

> close to the mark?

>

> Thanks

 

Hi - you've crossposted this to several groups, but not the most relevant

one, which would be microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web. I suggest you

post there for the most expert help on offline files, as it's a client side

thing.

 

(personally, I abhor offline files & have seen too many errors & data loss

with it - I'd change the redirection for your laptops My Documents to point

at a local folder you create, such as c:\data, and use something like

SecondCopy from http://www.centered.com to sync the data to the server).