A dead sync target with Offline folders

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm using offine folders under Vista.

I mapped a drive and set it to "always available offline" and synchronised -
which was great by the way.

Unfortunately the system that i'm synchronising with has died and can't be
repaired so I can't sync with the original files anymore. That's not a major
problem as I have the data, but I can't clean up the offline copies or the
sync partnership without being online to that system (which can never happen
again).

How can I clean up the offline files without going online (by the way,
"delete offline copy" does nothing).

Thanks!

 

[Shubhankar Sanyal [MSFT]]

Hi,
"Delete offline copy" is probably not working due to the presence of ghosts
in your cache. For now, one option is to reinitialize the Offline Files
cache. However that would also blow away all other data in your cache from
other servers/shares as well, including changes you made offline. If you do
want to go that route, here are the instructions:
To reset the offline files cache, perform the following steps(note - you'll
lose everything that you made available offline on the client):
1.. In registry, create a DWORD value called FormatDatabase under
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters. To this value, assign
the value of 1.
2.. Restart the computer.

Thanks,
Shubhankar