Offline Files Painfully Slow 2

[guest]

My Windows 7 uses the server copy when it's online. This is painful. I want my Windows computer to direct applications to local copies of files. It does this fine when the online file is unavailable. But when the online file is available, I have to communicate over the LAN and it takes forever. I've started taking the laptop offline before running certain applications. I'm sure there's a better solution. I've enabled transparent caching. That helps sometimes, but not usually.


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[guest]

When a Windows 7 computer is using offline files and folders with transparent caching enabled, what copy of the file is it using over slow connections? The description of the network offline files policy for transparent caching sounds like there is a cached copy of the file being used. I'm not clear on whether that's a third copy or a just a different word to describe the local offline copy of the server file. The documentation says the cached copy is not synchronized with the server. Can someone explain to neophyte what transparent caching is doing? And why my applications zip right along when the remote computer has no connection at all to the server but run like molasses when the remote system is connected to the server?

[guest]

As you say, you may set a slow connection policy.

Also, you can click Work Offline button when you access the shared folder online to get offline access.


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[guest]

Is there a more elementary explanation of slow connection policy than the one in the policy editor. Slow connection policy involves several settings and it's hard to mentally integrate the explanations of the separate settings.

By the way, I don't think taking the machine offline in the OS will work. I have to actually turn off the network connection, i.e. break the physical connectdion to get the application to use the local offline copy. If I tell Windows I want to work offline, Windows denies me access even to the local offline copies of those files.


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[guest]

About Slow Connection, you may refer to the following TechNet blog.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archiv ... files.aspx

Does it not work when you click Work Offline button on the menu bar of explorer? If yes, What kind of error message did you receive?


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