IE 'Make available offline' favorite dies

[Guest]

When I make a page available offline, the page remains available offline for
about a week or 2, then it spontaneously becomes unavailable (greyed-out in
the favorites list). I have tried disabling all scheduled synchronization to
no avail. Does anyone know why this might be happening?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

When I make a page available offline, the page remains available offline for
about a week or 2, then it spontaneously becomes unavailable (greyed-out in
the favorites list). I have tried disabling all scheduled synchronization to
no avail. Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Probably the components of it are being aged out of the TIF.
Use the TIF Viewer to see if they have an Expiry date to account
for the abruptness that you seem to be claiming;
otherwise depending on the size of your TIF and the amount
of browsing you do in the interim the offline favorites components
may or may not be selected by the replacement algorithm.
If you are running CacheSentry offline favorites components have
no different priority than any other element; then they are simply
deleted on an oldest Last Accessed basis.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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[Robert Aldwinckle]

Dear Robert,

Thanks for taking the time to reply!!

By 'TIF' do you mean an image?

No. Consider the context: "aged out of the TIF"
How could that possibly be construed as referring to "an image"?

FYI: "the TIF" refers to the "Temporary Internet Files" folder.
The "TIF Viewer" refers to the Explorer special view of that directory
and its hidden subdirectories. It is opened by using the Tools, Options
Settings... dialog. Keystrokes: Alt-T,O,Alt-S,V

If your second hypothesis is correct, is there any way to protect old stuff
from being deleted?

I haven't used CacheSentry in some time and haven't even downloaded
the most recent version. In my experience it does not protect files which
are downloaded by using a synchronization mechanism. It seems to use
the Last Accessed timestamp as the criterion for what files are selected
for replacement when the TIF reaches CS's cache size.

I haven't investigated the API it uses to know the full extent of support that
files saved via synchronization could have. I think I even read once that CS
specifically would not make use of some indicators which may be available
to it to do this.

However, IMO the days of using offline favorites effectively are long gone.
The feature worked best when it was introduced in IE4. In IE5 MS started
paying more attention to how content providers were marking their files
regarding cacheability. Also by then sites were using dynamic page
construction techniques, which caused even more use of non-cacheability
of web content.

If you need to use a web page offline reliably you should save it.
If you need to use a web site offline reliably you should consider
third-party solutions, independent of IE's cache.

Thanks!!

Seth

HTH

Robert
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