Vista Offline Folders - Folder Location

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Kevin Young

I have two hard drives in my laptop and would like to make use of the second
one to save offline folders. Is there a way to specify in Sync Centre or
elsewhere, where you would like offline folders saved or is there no way to
change it from the primary Windows Vista drive?
 
There is a way to move the cache from somewhere other than c:\. I assume
this is what you're asking? I am working on this procedure for our blog and
should have it done in the next day or so.
 
This is one way to change the location of the off line folder cache (the CSC
or Client Side Cache in Vista) if that's what you mean or Jill means:

The Client Side Cache folder in Vista is located at C:\Windows\CSC and
you'll have to take ownership of it even though you are adminstrator by
using the security tab which is easy but par for the UAC course. If someone
trojaned into your machine, it's not clear to me how many aspects of UAC are
going to protect you unless it prevents this. I've seen the Steve Riley
excellent presentation on this, and I stil don't fully believe that the
invader is "cordoned off" if he can get into a Vista box. Most hackers are
going to know UAC backwards and forwards but anyway...

One workaround is to create a symbolic link from the C:\Windows\CSC folder
to the location you want to move say E:\cscvista\ or wherever. Take
permission of the C:\Windows\CSC folder first at the security tab and this
becomes no big deal.

This means:

Disable offline files
Reboot Vista in safe mode command prompt only
Delete the CSC folder in the systemroot (usually C:\windows)
Create a symbolic directory link pointing to another location (e.g.
mklink -d c:\windows\CSC d:\csc )
Reboot
Enable offline files

When Jill posts in a couple days on her blog from her team, you're going to
get the best information from her team aka the best practices way since they
build this stuff. Meanwhile this is one way to do what I think you want.

Good luck,

CH
 
Thanks Jill, That describes precisely what I would like to do and I will
check the blog for the solution over the next few days.
 
The method we're advocating is a bit different from what Chad describes.
I've tried it myself and it works, whereas I haven't tried Chad's method so
I can't comment on that. I have the text ready but need to get a final
review and then I wait 24 hours before posting.

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Kevin, it looks like it's going to be another couple days before I post the
blog. If you want to email me, I can send you the procedure. Remove "online"
from my address.

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Spotted it on the blog Jill, thank you.

Jill Zoeller said:
Kevin, it looks like it's going to be another couple days before I post
the blog. If you want to email me, I can send you the procedure. Remove
"online" from my address.

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rights.

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Visit our team blog at http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/default.aspx.
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