FIRST, we may be naive, but how do we specify the counterpart to the network
file we need to sync in Windows Vista? To sync a network file we mark it as
'Always Available Offline,' but where do we tell it what folder to sync with
on our local computer? I'm doing a bunch of synchronizing and have no idea
what is being synchronized on our local computer nor where!

SECOND, is there anyway to synchronize two folders on the same computer,
either on the same or separate drives? I.e., two local folders in contrast
to a network folder and a local folder. We often download office files and
would prefer to synchronize them right on the same local computer.

THIRD, is there anyway to synchronize a whole drive, other than selecting to
sync all the individual folders?

Thank you for any help with these items!

Blue Max wrote:

Sorry, Shenan, the third post to the Windows XP group was inadvertent. Our
question really applies to the 'Sync Center' in Vista, not in XP. This was
a simultaneous post and we apologize for inadvertently including the XP
group in the post. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

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Answers in-line.

"Blue Max" wrote:

When you mark a file or folder as 'Always Available Offline,' what I will
refer to as 'pinning a file,' the file is then copied into the CSC cache.
The cache is located by default at %%SystemRoot%%\CSC. The security settings
on this location is are designed to discourage people from directly
manipulating the files it contains. The structure is intended to be opaque.

What is being synchronized are any files and folders that you have pinned.
If you pin a folder using the 'Always Available Offline' option in the pop-up
menu, all the folders contents will also be pinned--including sub-folders and
their contents. If you pin a share all the contents of the share are pinned
and, once synchronized, will be available to you when you are not connected
to the network.

Thanks, miket! It appears that Microsoft's sync program is not the program
for us. Our desire is to sync folders in two different locations,
regardless of whether they are on the same drive or the same network. An
example, might be a project of several files that is maintained in two
locations, say home and work. We might have worked on the project both
places and now want to synchronize the folders so that the source folder,
destination folder, or both,will have the latest updates. We also want the
sync process to identify copies of the same file which may have been
inadvertantly updated in both locations since the last sync. In such cases,
we would be alerted to the fact that accepting one or the other would delete
the modifications of the compliment file in the other folder...