Questions tagged [offline-files]
For questions related specifically to the Offline Files feature of Microsoft Windows.
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How to synchronize offline files after each save?
I have an SMB share mounted in Windows 11. I enabled offline files for specific files. Now I noticed that I can press the synchronize button in the Windows 11 Sync Center or the context menu to ...
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How to add unity editor modules offline?
I have windows 10 desktop PC. I want to add modules to my unity editor that i installed, but i don't have network connection.
How and where to download those files with other device and place it ...
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"Always available offline" not showing in right click menu on Windows 11
Even after enabling the offline files/ sync center then "Always available offline" not showing in right click menu on Windows 11 when I click on a folder on local area network.
restarted ...
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Is there any way to use google translate offline on pc?
I want to use google translate on the laptop without wi-fi. Is there any way to download that, or something like that to use google translate offline?
like just download that two languages you want to ...
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Make Google Drive files available without internet conncetion
I want to sync folders from Google Drive to my laptop and have them available without internet connection.
My Google Drive app is set to 'Streaming'. (The option for 'Mirroring' is greyed out).
The ...
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Automatically send certain filetypes to preset location
So the workflow I'm going for is saving the active webpage as .MHTML using a keystroke and make it go into a pre-set save location, so there's no interruption to browsing. I can easily get the .MHTML ...
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devdocs.io doesn't seem to work offline
OS: Linux Mint 18.3
Browser: FireFox 70.0.1
Ironically the documentation for devdocs.io is somewhat scarce. It seems there is no add-on for FireFox for devdocs, although there is one for Chrome.
I'm ...
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Can i move samba from device to another?
I downloaded the samba on my operating system (Oracle Linux 8), I want to copy it to another device that have the same operating system but without internet connection. Can I do that? if i can how to ...
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Where are scheduled tasks stored in an offline Windows 10 partition/hard drive?
I found this similar question: Where are scheduled tasks stored in an offline windows 10 image?, which however is about finding the tasks in an image file of a Windows installation.
I am looking for a ...
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Automatic website caching
For anyone familiar with HTTrack, this program (among others) would seem to potentially be the start of a way to cache websites separate and more durably from the rather limited scope of a browser's ...
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Change sync server in windows 10 sync center
I have a user whos offline files are not synced with the files server. The offline files are trying to connect to old file server (not on network any more). All the data (since 1 year)is now stored on ...
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Windows folder size far bigger than all files and folders within combined
One of the computers on our network ran out of harddisk space, and it turned out the size of the Windows folder is given as nearly 70Gb (when going to my computer, then the c drive) and then right ...
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Downloading wikipedia database for offline use
Here there are many ZIM files: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/
I want complete English Wikipedia with images... which one should I download?
What is the difference for example ...
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What command line can I use to start sync of Windows 7/10 offline files?
On Windows, I would like to start sync of offline files from the command line and after the fact be able to see in Sync Center when it either started or completed (and the result).
mobsync.exe does ...
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Microsoft Excel 2016 Slow to Launch
Within our corporate environment; we use Folder Redirection for profile folders (e.g. those in Group Policy, AppData\Roaming, Desktop, Documents, etc).
We have enabled Always Offline Mode and ensured ...
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How to download all Google Drive files for all users in my organization
I am a super-admin for my organization and I would like to download all Google Drive files for every user in my organization in order to have an offline copy of all information. These files may or may ...
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Windows 10: symlink to an offline folder
I'm trying to streamline synchronisation of a game's save files between two networked Windows 10 machines. I wanted to try doing it locally without involving cloud services (which I will have to ...
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"Work offline" button functionality command in Windows
Windows has the "Offline Files" and sometimes (actually, most of the time) Windows does not recognize when the connection is back and I want to manually disable "Work Offline" mode with this button in ...
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WebDAV drive available offline in Windows 10
Normal mapped network drives have the handy option "Always available offline" in Win 10 which is great because files can be available even when the network is gone.
Unfortunately I miss this option ...
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Offline file syncing causes permission issues and hides some (but not all) desktop shortcuts
I have a user running Windows 10 on his laptop who I have enabled Offline Files in Control Panels' Sync Center. Initially everything appeared to be working fine after we restarted his computer, but ...
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ZoneAlarm Free offline installation, how to?
I read here that offline installation of ZoneAlarm Free are not available anymore since September 2015.
Is there a way to trick the ZoneAlarm Free installer and save a copy of the full offline ...
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Microsoft Sync Center not working properly after UNC path referencing was changed via gpo
Anyone experienced Microsoft Sync Center Issues after move from a NAS to an EMC isilon based NAS (in the process changing Server Name & IP Address) resulting impact on Network shares UNC path name?...
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Querying Offline Files available disk usage
Looking for a way to query the Offline Files "available" disk usage (Windows 10). The value I want to query is displayed in the Offline Files GUI on the Disk Usage tab. The value is not based on ...
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Recover deleted offline files
I tuned on the offline availability feature for one of my network folder. After turning it off, I accidentally deleted the copy of the offline folder. Is there a way to recover that folder?
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Files not found after online sync
I initially turned on "Always available online" feature for one of my network folder. After turning it off, some of the files disappeared even though they weren't deleted. Why has this happened and ...
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Is there way to enable Offline Files on Windows 10 Home without upgrading to Pro?
I have a laptop that only requires the Offline Files feature in Windows 10 Pro. It is currently is running Windows 10 Home. Is there a way to enable that feature without a full upgrade to Windows 10 ...
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How to save firefox addons for offline installation
I wish to save firefox addons & extenstions and install it offline, Is it possible to save the addons and install it later offline?
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Slow file browsing of offline files, Windows 10
I am using Windows 10 and just setup Offline Files for 3 folders I'm currently working from (28 sub-folders, 550 files, 185MiB). I prefer working from local copies of the files for performance reasons ...
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After setting up Sync Center can no longer browse the unsynced network files
My corporate VPN occasionally drops out so I set up Offline Files in Sync Centre to make a key directory available when offline.
However, now that is the only directory I can see on the server in ...
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Decentralized, aggregated, selectively synced storage solution
Originally, I just wanted to synchronize some selected files of my 1TB OneDrive to my Notebook SSD and all my files to my external HDD. Cloud storage programs (dropbox, gdrive, onedrive, resilio, ...
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How to make local file the default when using offline files?
All our users files are located on a centralized (Server 2016) file server. The directories individual users use are set to 'make available offline' - either via GPO for directories like their home ...
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Can I store files in Onedrive offline only
Is it possible to use Onedrive as storage only, I need to upload photos from my computer to OneDrive, then I need to delete them locally from my pc in order to save harddrive space. But the photos ...
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Does a local alternative to WSUS exist?
I've been researching on Google for the question in title, but haven't found much of use except one program called "WUMT" for an alternative to the built in windows update itself.
Here is what I'd ...
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Browser based software solutions in offline mode
Scenario:
Internet connectivity has been lost due to a fault in the line or technical issues which the ISP is experiencing.
And/Or
The servers hosting the software browser based solutions have ...
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What problems would I face setting up an off-line network to support 50+ devices to view a php page?
Looking to assist a friend in creating an offline network to support 50-90 devices for a show. I'll be using wampp to host a few php/js/hmtl files on my laptop that an offline router will allow these ...
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Extract files from CSC (offline files) folder
Is there a way to extract files from the c:\windows\csc folder in Windows 7 professional?
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Changing filename capitalization for files on a network drive requires permission from myself
Whenever I try to rename a file on a network drive by changing the capitalization, I get a popup error telling me that I can't rename the file without permission from my own account.
For example, I ...
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Sync Windows folders with remote server and log changes that are made
I work remotely as part of a distributed team working on a project. Our project files are stored on a server share that I access via a VPN.
Currently I use Offline Files to maintain a local copy ...
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Sync Center Offline Files - auto resolve conflicts and disable offline files
I am looking for a way to resolve sync conflicts, initiate an offline files sync, then disable offline files all by command line or powershell...Windows 7
I have a ton of computers that installed an ...
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Offline folders says there is not enough free space on the drive - but there is (Windows 7)
I have been using Windows Offline Folders for some years now, without too much hair torn out.
However, after reinstalling Windows and setting up my tried-out configuration, synchronization stops ...
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How to move a Windows 7 VM's CSC to a network/host volume?
I am running a Windows 7 Pro virtual machine on VMware on Ubuntu 14.04, and would like to move the Win7's CSC (client-side cache, for offline files) to the data partition on the Linux host. This is a ...
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Windows 10 sdk offline installer?
Isn't there any offline installer available for the Windows 10 sdk? All I can found is 1.2 MB sized sdksetup.exe file which requires an Internet connection to install. If there available, please ...
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Make Chrome Resources available offline (for dev work)
I like to do web development work while being on the train, with poor connectivity...
Most content I look at in my Chrome browser comes from the local server but a very few resources come from remote ...
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Troubleshooting Windows offline files "Status: offline (no connection)"
A laptop computer running Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 is accessing several shares on a Linux/Samba server via UNC paths. On one of these shares, some folders have been made available offline. This ...
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How to download a HTTPS website using username and password (For offline access)
I'm trying to download a complete video courses using my credentials from
https://mitprofessionalx.mit.edu
I have tried https://github.com/coursera-dl/edx-dl but it doesn't work for this site.
I ...
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How to show an external hard drive as offline
Googling this question is not giving me relevant searches so i'm asking here.
I recently upgraded my laptop by switching the 1TB sshd with an 240 GB SSD , i got an hard drive enclosure and now i'm ...
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How to re-enable green Offline Files icon in Windows 7
I have a few folders on a network share that I have set up to always be available offline using Sync Center. The sync works fine, but Windows no longer indicates which folders I've enabled sync on.
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Unable to completely disable Offline Files feature for Windows 7 in GPO
I have been trying to completely disable the offline files feature for all the W7 PCs on the domain that I manage. I have been unable to.
I do not want this feature as it creates unwanted, largely ...
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Windows 8.1 Pro: Offline Files sync issues
We have a machine running Windows 8.1 Pro in a domain configured for the Offline Files feature on some of the network shares. Some files are syncing with this machine and some are not. All other ...
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"This website is asking to store data on your computer for offline use"
Whenever I visit some websites using Firefox, I get the dialog below asking me to "store data on your computer for offline use".
It is displayed if I am using Firefox but not if I am using Chrome.
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