Windows 7 offline files sync time

Select one or more conflicts, and then click Resolve. Follow the instructions to resolve the conflicts. Try disabling the non Microsoft programs and sync. If you're able to sync, then it confirms that some program is interfering with the task. NOTE: Do not forget to follow step 7 to start the computer as usual. Post back with the results, so that we can assist you further.

Hope this helps. Regards, Syed V Microsoft answers support engineer. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Waseemulla Shariff's post on February 11, Hi, Thanks for the response. Further clarification: 1. Yes, previously I was able to keep files in sync. I don't know when it stopped, although the Sync Center et al were reporting a last succesful sync date back in September. Security software: yes. Non-MS sync software: no.

Since this seems to have been going back quite a ways, yes, there have been changes, but I have no idea what they were -- probably quite a few by now! Also, there are no options available for resolving the sync conflict within the Sync Center, just the message in the properties "Unable to sync at this time. I tried following the troubleshooting methods doing a clean boot, and still the same result. One puzzle I'm working through -- even trying to do the clean boot from the KB article you linked, I'm still getting programs starting up that I deselected.

Which is weird, but after killing all non-MS processes, and verifying no non-MS services are running, still the same result. Thanks, -Tim K. If the network goes down or simply slows down significantly , Windows begins using cached items instead of their server-based counterparts; when the connection is restored or the logjam breaks, your files are synchronized.

You can also simply opt to work with cached files instead of network-based files even when the network is online. Synchronization of offline files normally occurs whenever you reconnect to the network— or, if you choose to work offline while you're connected to the network, whenever you return to online status. Background synchronization, by default, occurs approximately every six hours while you are connected. You can also perform ad hoc synchronization, synchronize on a schedule of your choosing, or set up an event-driven synchronization schedule—for example, stipulate that Windows should synchronize whenever you lock or unlock your Windows account.

The option to synchronize on demand is particularly important; to ensure that your offline cache holds the latest versions of any files you intend to use when you go offsite, you should perform an ad hoc synchronization right before you disconnect. Files cached for offline access are indexed by default, so you can search for them the same way you would any other indexed file.

To make a folder or file available offline, navigate to its network location, right-click, and choose Always Available Offline:. As soon as you choose this command, Windows begins copying the selected item to your local cache. You will see a progress report while this is occurring. On completion, you will see a report of success or failure. In the following example, two errors have occurred:.

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by a Two of the files on the server were in use and therefore couldn't be synchronized. In this circumstance, you could close the server copies if you're the one using them and perform a manual sync. Or if you don't need the offline copies right away, you could let the next scheduled background synchronization take care of the problem. After you have made files available offline, certain changes in Windows Explorer allow you to confirm their new status see Figure :.

If so, which ones? Unfortunately mcseRob's suggestions don't correspond to the Windows 7 options I see, but I'm probably missing something. Any guidance would be much appreciated! In reply to Simon Wand's post on September 6, Hope this helps! Hi Debbie This doesn't really help. The page tells me how offline files are supposed to work, but they are clearly not working as they are supposed to.

The page doesn't actually offer any troubleshooting steps. Sync Center is what I am using to manually sync files before and after I open them, but this is not an effective work-around since there is nothing to stop another user from editing a file while I have it open.

More and more, when I use Sync Center to sync a file after I have edited is I get a conflict reported which I then have to spend 10 minutes manually resolving, only to discover that while I was manually resolving the conflict, a new conflict has occurred!

This is more than a little frustrating as offline files worked flawlessly in Windows XP. For the time being my work-around is to disable offline files while I'm in the office and re-enable it when I leave, but with specific files and folders dotted around the network that I need to make available offline, this takes almost 30 minutes each time.

This is not an acceptable work-around. Any better ideas? In reply to Simon Wand's post on September 8, In reply to ErichKieck's post on September 22, The Server is r2, client is Win 10 64bit. I hope that helps someone. If using 7 then changes made offline are not synced back to network drive when back on the network. Tried local admin rights. Using Transparent Caching with 1ms setting.

Many other Group policy settings. I'm fairly sure we used to have this same issue, and the only thing I've patched is KB it's v2 of that KB that will download to resolve an issue with Temp files appearing and stuff being stuck in Offline files on client machines. This did replace the CSC. I tested against a server. I'll try a and a box too to see if there's any problem with them now. I'm having the same problem with redirected offline enabled libraries. Win7Prox86 and Server R2.

Any updates on this here? We also are having the same problem for more than a year now and it's annoying!!! We just started having this problem.

But we just migrated our share's file storage to be hosted on a Windows R2 Enterprise bit server. We did not have this problem with Windows R2 Standard bit. We have faced similar issues, but have managed to resolve it after alot of jiggery pokery As far as our network was concerned, we didn't appear on the surface to have any issues.

Corrupt CSC - This was caused during the rollout process on a large number of machines.. Reboot, then renable Offline files, then reboot once more. After the 2nd reboot, you'll see that the Format Database line has been removed from the registry.

Immediately after you've done this, set up the Offline files you want again, then retry your operation. We had this problem alot to start, but only suffer this problem now very rarely across users.

If this does occur, it is nearly always the case that rebuilding the CSC resolves the issue. The problem was recurring until we tackled the other issues stated at the start of this article.

Now everything runs very well. It has taken us 6 months to be able to say that though!!! We had so many issues, each one blended into each other. Still, We've all done very well on the over-time, thankyou MS! I can confirm this behaviour, too. The offline-functionality is working absolutely inconsistent in Windows 7. I'm on this topic since more a than a year now.

The other way around sometimes files aren't synced to the workstation when made available offline. I also noticed problems with the automatically offline synced personal folders moved to server share via GPO : sometimes files don't sync or sync hours later to the share.

We almost lost user files during a migration because of that! I have the same issue. I've set folder redirection through GPO and the files never sync once the user reconnects to the network. They sit "Offline need to sync ". What is even more annoying is that administrators can schedule the sync to happen at logon or when the PC is idle but regular users cannot. At least if we could schedule the sync policy through GPO. Wow, nearly two years since this question was posted and still no worthwhile contribution from Microsoft.

We are also seeing behavior similar to this. We're running Windows 7 clients on a SBS network. However, when they get back to the office occasionally they find themselves editing the same file another user is, or referring another user to check out a file they created while offline which is not actually in the share. Turns out their PC is using the local cache and not the network cache for some file access, but it insists that the user is working online.

Typically if the user forces a manual sync and resolves any conflicts or errors that arise, they can be 99 percent sure they are working online for real, but without double-checking against open files on the server there's really no way to know for sure.

This has absolutely destroyed user confidence in this technology which used to work OK where this is concerned anyway - it still had some flaws in Windows XP. I saw a post in the partner forum where a moderator basically said "oh yeah, I can totally reproduce that in my lab and that's a shame Seems like Microsoft is basically taking the stance that Offline Files is only worth using for folder redirection where only one user is likely to be using the files.

If that's the case then as long as the data syncs eventually it's probably not a huge deal that this happens. If, however, you're using Offline Files to sync a shared directory this can have disastrous consequences with documents being edited simultaneously for hours or even days before finally someone realizes the problem and then one user or the other gets to redo their changes.

If they can't make them work right, then they could at least give us more transparencey so the user can see what's going on. I hated the stupid "you are now working offline" popups in Windows XP as much as the next guy, but I'd kill to get them back now, if only to avoid this stuff. When a user browses to their share that's been made "always available offline" and it says "Offline status: Online" then it should be using files from the LAN, not the cache.

I've been experiencing this also, on a number of client sites. Looking through the policies, I noticed. When Offline Files is operating in the slow-link mode, all network file requests are satisfied from the Offline Files cache. This is similar to a user working offline. However, users can manually initiate synchronization by using Sync Center. After synchronization completes, computers running Windows Vista or Windows Server continue to operate in the slow-link mode until the user clicks the Work Online button on the toolbar in Windows Explorer.

This transitions the shared folder to the online mode. While in the online mode, Windows periodically checks the connection to the server. If the connection is slow, Offline Files transitions the folder back to the slow-link mode. This setting is enabled by default in Windows 7. I've set the policy to disable this on one of my problem networks, to see if it resolves the issue. Wasn't mentioned throughout the thread, could be worth trying for those still struggling with this issue. I'll report back in a few days, after the settings had time to propagate to the various laptops that come and go.

We've been struggling with a similar issue here - Nigel and Reese's answers helped to point me in the right direction. Nor it seems do any other Office file types.