Problems after moving My Documents to network drive

[Donny]

Hi all,

I've got a problem, can anyone help?

This is what is wrong:
My C: drive is so full that my user profile can't be loaded. Disk Cleanup is not
showing anything else that can be deleted.

This is how I arrived at this situation:
I have a 10Gb C: drive, a 160Gb D: and a 200Gb network drive (Linux box running
Samba.)

The OS is installed on C:, my programs are installed on D:. My Documents (26Gb)
used to be on D: but I moved it to the network drive. Before I did this, there
was 2Gb free on C:, but afterwards some sort of synchronization occurred that
seemed to try and copy all of My Docs to C:. At first Disk Cleanup showed a load
of offline content that I got it to remove, now it shows nothing but the disk is
still full.

How do I delete all this offline content? And how do I turn this synchronization
off?

Thanks in advance,
Donny

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Donny,

Uncheck the "Make folder private" option for My Documents folder.

Ref:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/learnmore/offlinefiles.mspx

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi all,

I've got a problem, can anyone help?

This is what is wrong:
My C: drive is so full that my user profile can't be loaded. Disk Cleanup is
not
showing anything else that can be deleted.

This is how I arrived at this situation:
I have a 10Gb C: drive, a 160Gb D: and a 200Gb network drive (Linux box
running
Samba.)

The OS is installed on C:, my programs are installed on D:. My Documents
(26Gb)
used to be on D: but I moved it to the network drive. Before I did this,
there
was 2Gb free on C:, but afterwards some sort of synchronization occurred
that
seemed to try and copy all of My Docs to C:. At first Disk Cleanup showed a
load
of offline content that I got it to remove, now it shows nothing but the
disk is
still full.

How do I delete all this offline content? And how do I turn this
synchronization
off?

Thanks in advance,
Donny

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Correction:

It should be "Make Available Offline" in the File menu. Uncheck that option.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Donny,

Uncheck the "Make folder private" option for My Documents folder.

Ref:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/learnmore/offlinefiles.mspx

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi all,

I've got a problem, can anyone help?

This is what is wrong:
My C: drive is so full that my user profile can't be loaded. Disk Cleanup is
not
showing anything else that can be deleted.

This is how I arrived at this situation:
I have a 10Gb C: drive, a 160Gb D: and a 200Gb network drive (Linux box
running
Samba.)

The OS is installed on C:, my programs are installed on D:. My Documents
(26Gb)
used to be on D: but I moved it to the network drive. Before I did this,
there
was 2Gb free on C:, but afterwards some sort of synchronization occurred
that
seemed to try and copy all of My Docs to C:. At first Disk Cleanup showed a
load
of offline content that I got it to remove, now it shows nothing but the
disk is
still full.

How do I delete all this offline content? And how do I turn this
synchronization
off?

Thanks in advance,
Donny

 

[Donny]

Correction:

It should be "Make Available Offline" in the File menu. Uncheck that option.

Excellent! Thanks for the help.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome Donny.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

Correction:

It should be "Make Available Offline" in the File menu. Uncheck that
option.

Excellent! Thanks for the help.