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Follow Covecube on Twitter.Offline folders - lots of synchronization errors
Hello,
I'm using a Win7 64 bit client, and I'm used to work with offline folders. There's a problem when using a pooled folder offline: The Synchronization Center gives an error on each and every file, claiming that the respective file cannot be accessed because another process is using it. ("Der Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen Prozess verwendet wird.").
When making a non-pooled folder available offline, this error does not occur. It's even possible to move a folder to and from the pool, and when the folder is in the pool, the error shows up, when it's outside the pool, the error is gone.
For a start, can someone confirm this behaviour?
Thanks,
jayrock
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I can confirm these errors (Win7 64b client, 4074) trying to use my music offline. I also use my documents offline (on a different machine) outside the pool and the error doesn't come up. I haven't tried moving the folder out of the pool though.
schlas
I'm new to all this but wanted to consolidate all my storage in one place so opted for WHS 2011.
Can across this and it seems great.
I have a laptop that I take out and about and use offline folders on my old server. Could not get it to work for the life of me on WHS. I assumed it was the new server and came across loads of stuff regarding "oppertunistic file locking" but nothing worked. Then the penny dropped, DrivePool.
So I'd also backup the need.
Using SyncToy for now... hope it is stable after a quick google it does not fill me with hope.
That's right. The folder I want to offline sync with is in the DrivePool. Client is a W7 64bit laptop. When I try and configure offline syncs all goes well until windows starts the sync. Once complete every file has the following error “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process“.
As I say I had put this down to the transition from my XP Pro PC (used as server) to WHS2011. To confirm I have just connected to a non DrivePool share and set that to "always available offline" and it has worked.
FYI Upgraded to M4 and tested this again, unfortunatly the situation has not changed. I'm guessing it is because windows cannot interact with the covefs presentation of the share.
Unfortunatly SyncToy has not proved to be that reliable or intuitive and needs a lot of hand holding where as I ran with offline files on my XP server without any hassle. It would be good to get back to this situation.
What log files or data do you need from me to help progress?
Can anyone recommend any alternatives to offline files? The bit I really like is the fact that my drive effectively remains mapped on the laptop even when offline.
I have looked a couple of sync products like synctoy etc. but then I have two different folders to manage. I like the way this is hidden with offline files
I see that support has now been added for this :-) in one of the latest builds. So I have enabled the facility in the .config file and started testing. The laptop I'm using starts the sync and then after a few files bombs saying "the specified network name is no longer available" the net result is that I only get a partial sync
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Are there any other settings I need to tweak for this to work reliably?