OPTIONALLY, YOU CAN ENABLE REMINDERS AND CREATE A SHORTCUT TO THE OFFLINE FILESFOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP

4. Optionally, you can enable reminders and create a shortcut to the Offline Files

folder on your desktop. Click Finish.

The files will be synchronized to your computer.

Files with extensions that are associated with certain database applications initially can-

not be cached. By default, the following files types cannot be cached:

*.slm; *.mdb; *.ldb; *.mdw; *.mde; *.pst; *.db

When you make network resources available offline, Windows automatically copies them

to the computer’s local hard disk drive, along with a reference to the original network

path. Windows stores offline files and information about the files in a database in the

%systemroot%\CSC folder. (CSC is an acronym for client-side caching, which is another

name for offline files.) The database emulates the network resource when it is offline.

When a user works offline, she continues to access offline resources as if she were

connected to the network, but she is actually using the local copy of the file. When the

network share becomes available again, the client will switch from the local offline files

to the live files automatically, provided that the following conditions are met: