Hi Mathew:

Some users find this a PITA. Not sure why, but it sometimes is. MS has a
utility from the sys internals group called sync toy:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

cool utility to allow you to keep folders in sync. You have to check in,
check out manually, but it is very quick and has no impact on the user
experience for a normal log in / out, just when they want to check out files
for a longer time away.

--
Larry


"Matthew" <mappleNOSPAMPLEASE@inch.com> wrote in message
news:%23yA7jT1xIHA.5832@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> 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 news:2847D041-FCA8-44B9-9C97-B1FA378B0CF7@microsoft.com...
>> 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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