On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:04 AM, John Hornbuckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does folder synchronization occur for users other than the one who's > currently logged in?
Known deficiency. CSC (Client Side Caching, AKA "Offline Files") is not multi-user aware in Windows XP. The CSC design team apparently assumed that only one person will ever log in to a workstation. :-( Cached files for all user just go into one big database, so all files attempt sync with every pass. I've read that CSC in Vista is much improved in this regard. Haven't tried it myself. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:56 PM, John Hornbuckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also says that a hotfix is available, but also that it can be fixed > with the latest SP. That's Microsoft standard boilerplate. It states that installing the latest Service Pack will fix the problem. If you think about it, that statement will remain true regardless of how many more Service Packs Microsoft might release. In other words, if something is fixed in SP2, but the latest Service Pack is SP3, installing the latest Service Pack will still fix the problem. Per the STATUS section of the article, "This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2." > So does that mean that with SP3, I don't need the hotfix? Per the article, "This hotfix includes four primary additions to Offline Files. To apply the additions that you want to use, you must edit the registry as directed...". In other words: The hotfix introduces new functionality. (That functionality was also incorporated into SP2.) The new functionality is controlled by some registry keys. It's not enough to just install the new functionality; you have to turn it on with the registry keys. > The closest seems to be the "Purge files for non-primary > users at logoff", but if I'm reading the article correctly we would have > to edit the registry on every machine to put in the username of the > primary user. Blech. Yah, the "fix" in MSKB 811660 doesn't really fix the fact that CSC in XP is not multi-user aware. It's just a kludge that tries to keep CSC from being used by more than one user on a machine. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
