Windows 7 Caching Certain Offline Files & Folders Without Reason
We are running a Server 2008 R2 Domain with Windows 7 Enterprise clients. We use group policy to enable user folder redirection (My documents, etc.) for each person's user account. Folder redirection enables offline files, which is absolutely beautiful for this purpose! Users love being able to access their My Documents folders from home. The problem arises with our networked drives, like our H drive. Windows 7 appears to reach out and grab commonly used network drive files. For example, today I did a lot of work in H:\Marketing. I shut my computer down, come up, and bam! There's H:\Marketing sitting in my offline cache. I didn't tell Windows to start synchronizing that folder, but it's getting synchronized. This is annoying in the least, but at the worst Windows 7 is caching data files related to networked applications and causing these applications to crash and/or exhibit random behavior. I see a ton of tutorials on how to disable offline files, but that will destroy the functionality we have with our redirected/synchronized "My Documents" (This is great!). The two things I'm curious about: 1. What criteria causes Windows 7 to decide that certain files should be made offline (automatic criteria, not manually specified stuff)?" 2. Can I disable the behavior in #1? 3. How can I disable offline files for certain drives? I'm not interested in clearing my cache because this is just a temporary fix. I want to disable offline files for networked drives while retaining the functionality that does work well (My Docs redirection/synchronization). Thanks!
March 23rd, 2011 7:09am

Bump! Has anybody else experienced this trouble?
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April 6th, 2011 1:28am

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