Files of This Type Cannot Be Made Available Offline

From: Stephen White (sw98109@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/22/02 

From: "Stephen White" <sw98109@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:17:02 -0800

The Windows 2000/XP Offline Files feature uses what is
called "Client-Side Caching" (CSC) to perform offline
synchronization. Within CSC certain file types are
excluded by default in order to prevent file conflicts
and data loss. Default excluded file types include PST
and MDB files.

When you try to synchronize a directory that contains any
of the excluded file types, you get the error
message "Files of This Type Cannot Be Made Available
Offline".

In Windows 2000, there was a great kbase article (252509)
that described how to modify the group policy object to
change which file types would be excluded from CSC.
However, there is no specific kbase article for how to
chance the excluded file types in Windows XP, and making
modifications to the group policy per kbase article
252509 doesn't have any affect.

Does anyone out there have any ideas on how to
reconfigure CSC to allow me to sync MDB and other files
or offline use?

Thanks!
Stephen White
sw98109@hotmail.com

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Synchronization Warnings
    ... You can set the list of file types that will not be made available offline. ... Group Policy object called Offline Files Settings with this and a few other ... When a client logs off and sync runs, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Offline File synchronization LOCKS UP SOLID!!!! ????
    ... For your second question, it could be a throw back to how Windows 2000 ... behaved in regards to certain file types. ... > whenever I select a new folder on a mapped network drive for offline ... > small folders sync OK, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: Offline File synchronization LOCKS UP SOLID!!!! ????
    ... For your second question, it could be a throw back to how Windows 2000 ... behaved in regards to certain file types. ... > whenever I select a new folder on a mapped network drive for offline ... > small folders sync OK, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: offline file synchronization
    ... > There are some file types that aren't sync'd because of potential issues. ... > c) change the configuration so the sync will occur ... > Error Message: Files of This Type Cannot Be Made Available Offline ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)