Different offline folder settings for different users?
Dear all, OS: Windows 7 Ultimate: Build 7100 I've got a few questions: 1) Are the offline files/folders cache for different users is the same. i.e.: Two users A and B. User A maps network drives and enables offline folders for those mapped drives. Mapped network drives on user A's account do not show up when user B is logged in. User B then maps the same network drives to the same network file locations and also activates offline folders for those same network folders. Is a new cache created for user B's profile or are the cache files the same as user A's? If the cache is the same, if user B does not sync the changed files, will the files change on user A's profile? ...and when user A subsequently syncs offline folders, will user B's changes be updated to the network folder? If the cache is not the same, how do you disable offline folders for just one user? I've tried disabling offline folders from one user account and it gets disabled for all user accounts. 2) Once offline folders is activated on a user's profile, why is it that any new mapped drives are automatically added to the offline folders sync partnerships? Is this mean to happen or should new mapped folders only be added to the offline filed list once the option is selected for that specific folder? Is there an option to control this behaviour? 3) How do you disable JUST ONE specific mapped drive from offline folders, and subsequently syncing? The only way I can see to disable offline folders for any one mapped drive at all is to disable ALL offline folders. Or is it just that I missed the option and it's located somewhere obvious? If it's so simple to make a folder "always available offline", why isn't there the opposite option (when you right click) to "Not always available offline" or something? -----So I'll re-cap the main issues: 1)How to disable offline folders for just one user without affecting normal network access. 2) Where is the option to disable automatically making any new mapped shares always available offline. 3)How do you disable just one sync partnership without unmapping the network share? I don't know if this is relevant or may cause issues is that user B is a local administrator and user A logs into the machine using a domain account. Thanks for your time. Any help is appreciated, especially if you point out that I missed something very obvious. <scyss>
August 27th, 2009 5:46am

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