Offline Files folder location

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Joel

Hi all!

Just wondering how I can change where offline files are
stored. I need to make a 120GB samba shared drive sync
with another 120GB drive on a local machine, so I'm
wondering how i would tell windows to store the offline
files on this 120GB drive rather than inside the windows
folder which resides on a seperate 30GB drive.

Thanks

Joel
 
Hi Joel

The following was posted to me by Ryan Winland when I
asked the same question a few months ago - Hope it's what
you're after.

Adrian

Hi

Those files are located in %windir%\CSC (hidden folder).

Offline Files Database
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/resk
it/prde_ffs_ludh.asp

To move it, you should use the tool cachemov.exe from the
Win2k resource kit
(you need to buy it). Here is an applicable paragraph
from MS TechNet:

Moving the Cache
The only way to safely move the hidden system folder (%
systemroot%\CSC)
is by using the Offline Files Cache Mover (Cachemov.exe)
tool available on
the Windows2000 Resource Kit companion CD. You can move
the cache
database to another location on a fixed disk only.

How to Change the Location of Client-Side Cache in
Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;216581


Here is a workaround if you don't have the cachemov
utility:

From: Ryan Winland ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Changing offline files folder location on
WinXP Pro
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely
Date: 2002-05-27 15:01:59 PST

<quote>
Hello:

The Resource Kit is not required to relocate the Client
Side Cache folder.

If your Windows 2000 (or XP) partition is NTFS, try
something like this:

1) Boot into Safe Mode and delete the contents of the CSC
folder.

2) While still in Safe Mode, create a reparse point
(junction) in the
%SystemRoot%\CSC folder and point it toward another
partition or a folder in
another partition. Use the Logical Disk Manager (Computer
Management\Storage\Disk Management) to mount a partition
or SysInternals
Junction
(http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junct
ion) to
mount a folder.

This works in Windows 2000, and should in Windows XP (I
haven't tested it,
however).

Hope this helps.
Ryan Winland
 
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