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by rindi1 1 view

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In windows 2003 server, Windows XP Pro Client environement, it is possible for the client to synchronize files located on the server with the client itself -> offline files. On the server those files have a known phisical location, but on the client I have no Idea where those files are located. It seems that on such a client pc they aren't stored as physical single files anymore. Does anyone know how and where those "offline folders" are stored? I don't want any use data to be stored on the system partition where my OS is, but on a Data partition. So I need to know where those offline folders are stored originaly and how I can change that location.

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by bfilmfan

You are seeking:

Desktop -> HKCU\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ User Shell Folders
Application Data -> HKCU\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ AppData
My Documents -> HKCU\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Personal

the Microsoft overview page is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prde_ffs_rljk.asp?frame=true

And you can easily do tha twith tweakui

by rindi1

The registry settings above only point to the location where the files are on the server (which I already know, as I set that up), but they show me nothing of where those files are on my client PC when I'm not connected to the server.
The Microsoft Technet Article doesn't tell me where those files are either,
and tweakui is just another way to show me the above keys of the registry.

by bobho

On a client the caching folder is in the %systemroot%\csc forlder by default (csc stands for Client-Side Cache). Here's a pretty good article on the whole client/server caching issue:

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=30421

You can use a utility from the w2k Resource Kit called Cachemov.Exe to move your cache folder. If you don't have the w2k Resource Kit you can download either the entire kit or do a net search for "download cachemov.exe" and there are a number of sites it can be downloaded from.

See ya,

RW

by rindi1

Thanks, this has helped. After I found my Resource kit and installed it I moved the CSC directory to another drive.

See ya too,

Markus

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