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mbudde
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USA
9 Posts

Posted - Apr 28 2003 : 12:18:02 PM

Hello all,

I have a question regarding the use of Offline files and Bristol. Every time I copy files from Bristol to our local network (CCN), a copy of the file gets stored as a temporary offline file in the Offline files folder (Windows 2000). I want to prevent this from happening. However, I keep some of the programs on our server sychronized, so I don't want to entirely disable Offline files.

Has anyone else encountered this, and if so, how would I disable it. Are there any settings that I could change to only keep the files that I specify as offline files. I thought that this is what I was doing, but windows seems to keep more than I want offline.

any help would be greatly appreciated,

-matt

francis.favorini
Forum Admin

USA
618 Posts

Posted - Apr 28 2003 : 6:05:05 PM

Matt,

You should be able to right click on a file or folder and uncheck Make Available Offline. This choice is also on the File menu. In your case, you can select the entire drive you have Bristol mapped to and disable offline files for it.

-Francis

IT Director, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center

francis.favorini
Forum Admin

USA
618 Posts

Posted - Apr 28 2003 : 6:29:57 PM

Matt,

If you haven't explicitly asked Windows to cache the files on Bristol, it is probably doing automatic disk caching. You can prevent it from doing this. Here is an excerpt from an article you may find helpful:

"By default, Win2K dedicates 10 percent of the local disk space to serve as a local cache when users open files in the folders that you've configured for automatic caching. Files are placed in this cache automatically when a user opens them. The files in this temporary cache aren't synchronized when users log on or log off, so you won't do any harm by reducing the size of the temporary offline files cache. You can use the slider at the bottom of the Offline Files tab to increase or decrease the amount of disk space that Win2K dedicates to the temporary cache. (This specification doesn't apply to the amount of disk space that the system dedicates to storing manually selected offline files. No specific limit exists for that space.)"

To turn off all automatic caching, open Windows Explorer and select Tools > Folder Options to open the Folder Options dialog box. Go to the Offline Files tab. Move the slider to 0%.