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Offline File Bugs or Mis-features
I'm finding a number of very frustrating and annoying problems with Offile Files & Folders which I use widely to enable me to work away from home on my laptop and keep my files synchronised with my server. The first problem is this. When I go to Sync Center and look at the offline files sync status, I see a screen saying there was one conflict because a file created on the laptop has the same name as a file on the server. OK. So I right click on this to bring up the resolution box, and select "keep both files". Now it bizarrely says that it can't resolve the problem in the way I've chosen, because it "can't find the file specified". What is going on here? Why does it think I've created two different files of the same name (I don't think I have)? And why when it then tries to save can it not find one of the files it was previously objecting to? See screenshot:
Second problem: one specific file that I've got on my server that's in an "always available offline" folder is not visible in Windows Explorer on the laptop, and when an application tries to access it I get "Access is denied". If I disable offline files in Sync Center, everything starts working again, but if I then re-enable offline files the problem returns. It seems to be a problem with a specific file name. If I rename the file to something else, it then works OK. If I then create a new file with the original name, it's the new file that causes the problem, not the old one. What on earth is going on here? It's making offline files pretty well unusable for some of my work. See screenshot of error message when Tortoise SVN tries to use the offending file:
Thanks for your help - Rowan