How to Make Folders and Files Available Offline in windows 10

Configuring Offline Folders and Files

When the network is unavailable, or when you are on the road and your laptop is undocked, offline folders and files allow you to continue working on files that are stored on shared folders on the network. These network mes are cached on your local disk so that they are available even if the network is not. When the network becomes available or when you dock your laptop, your connection to the network is reestablished. The Offline Files feature synchronizes the cached files and folders on your local disk with those stored on the network.

How to Enable the Offline Files Feature On Your Computer

Before you can use offline folders and files, you must configure your computer to use them. You configure offline folders and files by :

• Open the classic Control Panel in windows 10
• Switch its view to either "Large icons" or "Small icons"

•  Find the Sync Center icon and open Sync center

•   click on the link Manage offline files on the left

•  Click on the Enable offline files button

•  Restart Windows 10 to apply 

How to Make Folders and Files Available Offline

To make a specific file or folder available offline and enable automatic synchronization With the network, follow these steps:

• Go to Sync Center. You can type Sync Center in the search box, then select it from start menu 

•  Access the mapped network drive.  click View sync partnerships link in the left pane, then double-click the mapped network drive.

• Select the folder you want to sync , then click on Schedule button on the menu bar and follow the prompt to finish

The files will be synchronized to your computer.

Files with extensions that are associated with certain database applications initially cannot be cached. By default, the following files types cannot be cached:

'.slm; ‘.mdb; ‘.ldb; ‘.de; '.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 Wosystemroot%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:
. The user does not have any files currently open from that network share. I Synchronization is not required for any offline tiles in the share. a The user is not connecting to the network over a slow link.

If any of these conditions are not met, the user will continue to work with the offline version of the share until all files are closed and synchronization occurs.

Users have the same permissions to the locally stored versions of offline files as they do to the original network versions.

How to Configure Your Computer to Share Offline Folders and Files

Before other users on the network can use shared folders and files on your computer offline, you must configure the resource to allow caching for offline use. You configure offline folders and files through Windows Explorer or My Computer. the Allow Caching Of Files In This Shared Folder check box in Windows or you can visit this link to more info for share oflline folders and files in windows 10