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Make one out of many folders available offline with Windows 7

We have a user who is using large files. Instead of working on the network he is copying the files to his local machine for better performance. This isn't ideal as it's an error-prone manual process ...
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understanding HTTrack actions

i just started using HTTrack . and it offers 5 actions whenever i want to download a website for offline viewing. which are 1 Mirror Web Site(s) 2 Mirror Web Site(s) with Wizard 3 Just Get Files ...
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Disable Offline Files (mobsync.exe) on Windows 7 Home

This morning I was watching the CPU graph of a Windows 7 Home laptop and noticed that every few seconds, the CPU would spike several percent. I watched the processes and determined that it was mobsync....
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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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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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"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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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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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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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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Bookmark manager for local (offline) video files

I have a directory with several video files and subdirectories with more video files. In this case, they are photoshop tutorials, but that's not entirely relevant. I need to bookmark several videos ...
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Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Offline Files do not work

I have Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on my laptop and I use it to access folders shared from the desktop. The desktop has Windows XP Pro and Arch Linux (both 32-bit) installed in dual-boot. Sometimes I boot my ...
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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 force a partnership in offline files online?

I've set up sync partnerships to two servers on LAN. One server comes up nicely and sync works, while the other partnership appears to be permanently off-line. I've disabled in GP the slow mode (...
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Offline Files (CSC) on Windows RT

Windows RT does not have the Offline Files service. The Sync Center is also gone. Can it be enabled somehow? or can anyone recommend a replacement? My options are very limited on Windows 8.1 RT. The ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Windows 8.1 | Make remote network locations available offline

I've set up a NAS on my network, and would like to make some of the files accessible offline on my laptop. I can do this by mapping a network drive to \\NASNAME\share, and then right-clicking to ...
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Dropbox offline on USB

I have a Dropbox account and I use it to share files among a few PCs. Now I need to use these files on a PC where Dropbox is blocked. I'm thinking on moving these files to a USB and use them there. ...
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Strip html for reading

I purchased a kindle paperwhite, and I would like to send some webpages for reading to it. I know the process of sending it via email. But the problem is, I would like to 'optimize' the webpages ...
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How to install Eclipse IDE on linux?

How to install Eclipse IDE on linux machine, from an off-line package obtained from eclipse ? I got Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS x64.
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Clear IE10 AppCache Security request

Unsure if this is more suited in StackOverflow. ?? My website is using the AppCache API. When IE users open it the first time a confirmation box pops up saying something like: "Allow this website to ...
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Why has the Redirected Folders UNC path changed?

I have a user who has had a shortcut to his documents stop working. Further investigation has revealed that the shortcut (which worked up until yesterday) points to: \\server\redirectedfolders\user\...
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