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Windows 7 and Offline files STILL not working.
There have been many posts on this forum for months now, bemoaning the malfunctioning offline files feature when using Windows 7 (ie trying to sync brings up thousands of errors informing that files a...
OFFLINE FILES NOW FIXED!!
@BMach I'm afraid your suggestion didn't work. In the process of playing around though I finally found out what is causing the dreadful 'file is in use by another process' error.
I noticed that if I rebooted and tried to sync immediately then the process would be error free for a while, and then the usual errors would occur. So it occurred to me that a service must be kicking in belatedly that was causing the conflicts. It is the Windows Search (indexing) service, which by default starts automatically after a delay. Turning this off fixes the problem immediately (although having the NAS in security mode 'USER' may be essential also. It is working now and I can't be bothered to change it back again).
I sync'd over 5GB of offline files this morning, have modified and deleted some files, rebooted several times, etc, and have not had a single error (yet).
The search service does not index mapped NAS drives but by default it indexes the C:\ drive and any other internal drive. As soon as the Sync service starts shadowing NAS files and folders to the C:\ drive, the search service starts indexing them and this is the process that causes the error.
Disabling the search service is easy but a bit of a shame because it works well in Windows 7. On the plus side, removing it will speed your PC up.
If, like me, you have spent ages trying to get offline files working with your ReadyNAS then your offline files database will be in a bit of a mess. Before killing the search/indexing service I suggest that you disable offline files, delete any offline files on your C:\ drive and then reset the CSC (client side cache) database. To reset the CSC database use Regedit to create the following dword "FormatDatabase" at [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters] and give it a value of 00000001. Then reboot your machine.
To disable the search service go Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services and locate the Windows Search service. Stop it and disable it from starting. Then go to Computer and right-click your C:\ drive. Select properties and under the General tab you need to uncheck the tickbox 'Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties' then hit OK. Your PC will probably take several minutes to process this.
Reboot, enable offline files again, and you're good to go. :D
@BMach I'd be interested to know whether you have the Windows Search service running on your machines?
@BMach I'm afraid your suggestion didn't work. In the process of playing around though I finally found out what is causing the dreadful 'file is in use by another process' error.
I noticed that if I rebooted and tried to sync immediately then the process would be error free for a while, and then the usual errors would occur. So it occurred to me that a service must be kicking in belatedly that was causing the conflicts. It is the Windows Search (indexing) service, which by default starts automatically after a delay. Turning this off fixes the problem immediately (although having the NAS in security mode 'USER' may be essential also. It is working now and I can't be bothered to change it back again).
I sync'd over 5GB of offline files this morning, have modified and deleted some files, rebooted several times, etc, and have not had a single error (yet).
The search service does not index mapped NAS drives but by default it indexes the C:\ drive and any other internal drive. As soon as the Sync service starts shadowing NAS files and folders to the C:\ drive, the search service starts indexing them and this is the process that causes the error.
Disabling the search service is easy but a bit of a shame because it works well in Windows 7. On the plus side, removing it will speed your PC up.
If, like me, you have spent ages trying to get offline files working with your ReadyNAS then your offline files database will be in a bit of a mess. Before killing the search/indexing service I suggest that you disable offline files, delete any offline files on your C:\ drive and then reset the CSC (client side cache) database. To reset the CSC database use Regedit to create the following dword "FormatDatabase" at [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters] and give it a value of 00000001. Then reboot your machine.
To disable the search service go Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services and locate the Windows Search service. Stop it and disable it from starting. Then go to Computer and right-click your C:\ drive. Select properties and under the General tab you need to uncheck the tickbox 'Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties' then hit OK. Your PC will probably take several minutes to process this.
Reboot, enable offline files again, and you're good to go. :D
@BMach I'd be interested to know whether you have the Windows Search service running on your machines?
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