Preserve Dir. structure in Offline Files 2

[Andronium]

I'm using Offline File symchronization to synch files on a laptop with files on a user's home directory. The problem is that the files on the laptop are all there, but they are all in the "offline files" folder. The file structure in the user's home directory is not preserved in the synch process. Is there a way around this? Client is W2k Pro, server is NT4 Server.

Thanks!

 

[Eguy]

Andronium;

By default, the Enable Offline Files check box is selected in Windows 2000 Professional but is cleared in Windows 2000 Server. Even if your computer is configured to use Offline Files, you must still select the network files and folders that you want to make available offline. To view a list of all of the network files that are available offline, on the Offline Files tab, click View Files.

Ed
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[Andronium]

Ed- That's what I did. Maybe I wasn't clear, but the problem is that the directory structure for the folders I selected after I hit "view files" is not preserved. The user wants to synch their home directory which contains several dozen subfolders, each containing files. When the laptop synchs, it just dumps every file into the "offline folders" file, and all the directory organization is gone.

 

[helenc]

You don't have to access these files from the "Offline Folders" folder though where they are all dumped in regardless of folder structure. You should be able to access them from their usual location, eg. if you made "\\servername\username\mydocuments" available offline and put a shortcut to this folder on the desktop, the user should still be able to use this to access them.

Does this help?

 

[Andronium]

Ah, yes, that is what I'm looking for. Didn't realize you could do it that way. It looks like that's what Eguy was trying to tell me but I misunderstood. Thank you both!