Re: Changing Location of Offline Files folder

[Guest Kyle]

Would this also work for an external hard drive rather than a partition of

the main hard drive thanks Kyle

 

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> Justin wrote:

>

> > I am curious whether or not it is possible to change WHERE the

> > Offline Folder and associated files are stored on the hard drive.

> >

> > I synchronize my laptop (TabletPC) with our servers at work - the

> > size of the servers are rather large (10 gigs). I have 2

> > partitions on my hard drive and would like to synchronize the

> > offline files to another partition - not the system partition.

> >

> > Is this possible? If so, how?

> Hi,

>

> A previous post about this:

>

>

> From: Ryan Winland

> Subject: Re: Changing offline files folder location on WinXP Pro

> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely

> Date: 2002-05-27 15:01:59 PST

>

>

> Hello:

>

> The Resource Kit is not required to relocate the Client Side Cache folder.

>

> If your Windows 2000 (or XP) partition is NTFS, try something like this:

>

> 1) Boot into Safe Mode and delete the contents of the CSC folder.

>

> 2) While still in Safe Mode, create a reparse point (junction) in the

> %SystemRoot%CSC folder and point it toward another partition or a folder

> in another partition. Use the Logical Disk Manager (Computer

> ManagementStorageDisk Management) to mount a partition or SysInternals

> Junction

> (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction) to

> mount a folder.

>

> This works in Windows 2000, and should in Windows XP (I haven't tested it,

> however).

>

> Hope this helps.

> Ryan Winland

>

>

>

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