What a nice tools, these offline folders are. Synching some network folders locally to the laptop, so they are available, while I’m offline.
The fun starts the moment when I try to synchronize them from outside.
Getting the offline folders back online (see link ) seems not that easy: Fiddling with GPOs and registry keys might not help.
Steps to reproduce
- Make a folder available offline from a shared drive, wait until it finished synchronization without errors
- disconnect from your corporate network, switch to some public WLAN or other outside network
- connect to your corporate network through vpn
The result is that you’re connected to your corporate network, but can’t access other folders on the same drive as your offline folder.
There’s no “Work online” button.
Solution
Patience. It may take up to 5 minutes until windows knows it has a connection to the corporate network and puts the folders back online.