Windows Vista file synchronisation is a feature I had been looking forward to using for some time. Special folders that exist within a user folder (videos, music, documents, downloads, contacts etc.) can be moved to another location if you don’t want them sitting at the default location c:\Users\user_name.
Fantastic I thought. This would allow me to move all my folders off site onto my server that has a lot more storage. As I quite often download music, videos, large pdf’s etc to these locations, having them on my server is much more convenient way of storing them as I don’t have to worry about my primary partition getting full (I like to keep that purely for Windows and program files). All other data and games I keep on another larger partition.

Upon moving my Documents folder to my server and enabling the offline mode the files look like that above (The green arrow shows that the files are synchronised and available offline). Windows Vista describes the ‘always available offline’ feature as…
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You can keep a copy of this network folder on your computer so you can access its files when
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