Wow, so basic, I never even thought to look in My Documents!! They're all
there!! That's how it's supposed to work. Thank you for pointing out the
obvious to me!

Matthew

"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> Offline Files should be transparent to the user. For example, if you
> access a redirected My Documents directory on the server when connected to
> the LAN, when you're working offline you'll still go to File -> Open.
> You'll see the same thing you do when connected to the LAN, but under the
> covers, you'll be accessing offline copies of the files.
>
> IMO the only real trick is that if a user has both a laptop and a desktop,
> it's important to sync the laptop after traveling, before starting to work
> on the desktop. Windows can deal with sync conflicts fairly well, but
> it's still easier if you just avoid the conflicts in the first place.
>
> You don't really need to access the files where you are in Windows
> Explorer unless you're troubleshooting, or maybe trying to recover a file
> that's been deleted from it's main location.
>
>
> "Matthew" <mappleNOSPAMPLEASE@inch.com> wrote in message
> news:eOsblG1xIHA.2184@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi. Sorry if I over cross-posted!
>>
>> I have one staff member who travels a lot, and she has historically
>> manually copied her entire (2GB) User directory to her (XP) laptop before
>> travelling.
>>
>> Over a few years, this resulted in about five different versions of her
>> directory, a situation I want to prevent from happening again.
>>
>> So I looked into enabling offline files, the theory being that there
>> would be an intelligent process managing the syncronization of files
>> between her laptop and the server (Small Business Server 2003).
>>
>> However, when I enable this and open the Offline Files Folder, what we
>> see is an unordered list of a gazillion files, not at all in their
>> heirarchical directory structure. It's impossible to find something like
>> this.
>>
>> Is there a better solution? Are we not using Offline Files properly? If
>> she copies her entire directory
>>
>> Any input is greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matthew
>>
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