Offline Folder Causing low disk space

[Sunil]

Hello All,
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
We are running offline synchronization on a few clients. Not everybody is
having this issue, but couple of them are running out of disk space on the
hard drive. When performing a disk cleanup, we see the most space used by
Offline Folders. The folder is only 7 GB, but the offline folder in the disk
cleanup is stating it is using 80 plus GB. I am guessing it is storing all
the "Previous versions" of this folder. Is there a way I can limit it? Or
atleast not have so many previous versions?

Thanks in advance

Sunil

 

[Andrew E.]

Go to run,type:CLEANMGR /SAGESET Check the files you want diskcleanup
to eliminate,once thru,return to run,type:CLEANMGR /SAGERUN

 

[Sunil]

Hello Andrew,
Thanks for getting back to me.
This would just do the disk cleanup, which is what we have to do anyway
right now. This buildup does not happen to all the laptops. Just a few. Is
there a way to reduce the size of the offline folders without doing cleanup
all the time. The folder that we want offline is only 7GB, but when the
offline sync occurs, it ends up being 84 GB in this one person's case. Any
idea why this happens?

Thanks

Sunil

 

[John John (MVP)]

You can set the maximum offline cache size in Group Policies. In the
case of the out of control offline cache for the couple of problem
laptops I would reinitializing the cache. Synchronize the files with
the server before you reinitialize the cache, reinitializing deletes all
the offline files and resets the CSC database.

John

 

[Twayne]

Hello Andrew,

Thanks for getting back to me.
This would just do the disk cleanup, which is what we have to do
anyway right now. This buildup does not happen to all the laptops.
Just a few. Is there a way to reduce the size of the offline folders
without doing cleanup all the time. The folder that we want offline
is only 7GB, but when the offline sync occurs, it ends up being 84 GB
in this one person's case. Any idea why this happens?

Thanks

Sunil

Sounds like you might have a user who isn't limiting the depth of the
download and he's pulling in an entire, large web site instead of the
area he's interested in. A lot of people make the mistake.

My 2 ¢

 

[sohel08]

;3150654']Hello All,
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
We are running offline synchronization on a few clients. Not everybody
is
having this issue, but couple of them are running out of disk space on
the
hard drive. When performing a disk cleanup, we see the most space used
by
Offline Folders. The folder is only 7 GB, but the offline folder in the
disk
cleanup is stating it is using 80 plus GB. I am guessing it is storing
all
the "Previous versions" of this folder. Is there a way I can limit it?
Or
atleast not have so many previous versions?

Thanks in advance

Sunil

This would just do the disk cleanup, which is what we have to do
anyway right now. This buildup does not happen to all the laptops.

Clean unnecessary files