Offline Files question again

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Laptop, xp pro, has large drive, 2 partitions, small partition with OS, large
partition with nothing.

Desktop, xp pro, contains all data, more data than the OS partition for
laptop has.

How can I make all these files, 100gb worth, offline and force the laptop to
use the 2nd partition. I've gone haywire tryna find the area to change this,
but it defaults to the OS partition which only has a couple gigs free. thanx
in advance for the help.

Robb


Reply:

GCB 10/9/2006 6:05 AM PST

Might be barking up the wrong tree here Robb but have you tried disabling
the
offline folders first and then moving all of the documents on to the other
drive and then re-enabling it again?

I've used offline files and folders a few times now and I usually utilise it
most when storing documents on a network and then as you have - synchronise
them when the portable computer connects to the network.

Gary
MCP


Update: I want to keep the data files on the desktop. I map to them using
map network drive letter on the laptop, but if i unplug from this peer to
peer network, I obviously can't access the files any longer because they are
not on the laptop, so I choose, make this folder offline, and it wants to put
the offline copies on the c: partition of the laptop, which is small, how do
i move the offline copies to the 2nd partition which is huge? I want the
permanent copies on the desktop though. Thanx.

Robb

 

[gs]

you mean you want the default "documents and setting\usersname" not on C but
on D:?
or are you talking about a laptop as domain workstation that gets
disconnected every so often and you keep the offline data on D:?

with domain connection, you can simply use policy to control where to put a
users' profile and "my documents", desktop,...etc

without, domain you will have to do it by user. one way is to download a
power toy tweakui. from Microsoft. search on ms for xp tweakui download


For advanced users, they can carefully tweak the registry by hand or script.
but tweakui is the preferred safe way