Windows 10 Setup Offline

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To see if the printer was installed with a WSD port, go to Control Panel and then to Devices and Printers. Right mouse click on the printer and choose Printer Properties. Select the Ports tab and check to see the port that it is using. Below is an example of one setup as a WSD port and one setup as a TCP/IP port.

Maybe a windows update? Networking, firewall and print configs have not changed and been setup for as long as I can recall. Suddenly several printers on each of the print server are offline until I disable SNMP.

That maybe a workaround, but not a fix. SNMP has been working for a long while. First time on a print server that I have had to specifically turn it off to get a printer to come online. There is a reason it has stopped working. An its especially odd since its two separate sites/servers.

Honestly, this seemingly late "bringing to the forefront" (I guess you'd call it) of the whole "Online Only" vs. "Make Available Offline" thing has been more of a headache than a help, if I may offer my opinion.

I purchased a new ultra-portable Windows computer which has a 256GB SSD on board, but I plan on using my Dropbox files with it, and I have well over 256GB worth of stuff in my Dropbox.

The thing is that I'm often in situations in which I need offline access to my files.

So I purchased a 1 TB microSD card, which will never leave its slot in this machine. Heck, I can't even retrieve it, it seems.

I mounted it so that it isn't considered "Removable Media" by the computer, and then I proceeded to install Dropbox on the computer, with the intent of using the 1 TB card exclusively for Dropbox content...offline.

I left my machine to sync overnight, and what do you know? Everything has a stupid cloud next to it.

I have no option to "Make Available Offline," either in the file/folder context menu or in the Dropbox application > Preferences > Sync menu.

If this is by design, it's a pitifully stupid design.

I'm going to whatever lengths I can to make this work the way I envision, but I'm going to be awfully disappointed if Dropbox doesn't respect use cases that might not necessarily conform to a narrow definition.

If it's an issue with a recent update to the application, then please bug the developers posthaste.

I have been exchanging emails with a very helpful Dropbox engineer and he has stepped me through a few options. Most didn't work. This latest one does, but it's a step back to a previous stable version of the app.

I was told that Dropbox are working on an updated version of the app that will bring back the context menus as they are aware of the problem. However, this may take a week or more. In the meantime, he suggested I roll back to an older version of the app that still works with the context menus on the latest version of Windows 11. You can find the download link to the install file here: =158.4.4564&plat=win&type=full&arch=x64

2. Give it time. It takes a bit after the install to click online. Check that the older version of the app has "taken" by hovering over the Dropbox app icon and checking the app version. It should be 158.4.4564.

3. After the install is finished, Dropbox will sync and will re-index all your local files on your hard drive in the Dropbox folder. That will take a while, depending on how many files you have and how big the total storage space is. Be patient.

4. Your context menus will slowly come back online in Windows Explorer when you right-click as each file and folder finishes syncing and indexing. If you right-click and the Dropbox context menu isn't showing, it probably means it is still syncing and indexing. Again, be patient. Once that's finished, your context menus should be back for all your files and folders in Dropbox.

5. VERY IMPORTANT. You need to DISABLE the auto-update for Dropbox until the new stable version is installed (when it eventually comes out) and you stay on this version. 158.4.4564. To do that: open Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and go to the PROCESSES tab. Scroll down to BACKGROUND PROCESSES and keep scrolling until you get to "Dropbox Update Service (32 bit)" and click on that to highlight it. Then right-click and select "End task." That will disable the auto-update TEMPORARILY.

NOTE: if you reboot your computer, the Dropbox auto-update task will enable again, so each time you reboot, you will need to disable the auto-update process. Just repeat STEP 5. There is no real way to turn it off permanently, and there's a whole Dropbox thread about it. If you want to read about it, it's here. -and-Installations/How-to-disable-DropBox-Update/td-p/199292 I wouldn't recommend it anyway because you do actually want the auto update to work, and it's part of Dropbox's policy. I wouldn't mess with it anymore permanently. If you are in contact with a Dropbox engineer via email as part of this issue, they will be able to turn it off for you on their end, but you have to ask.

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I would like for you to locate your Dropbox icon next to your WiFi, and hover your mouse there. Once you do, can you let me know the version, and syncing status of the desktop application that you're using?

Which means that a folder should never go in to Slow-Link mode while connected to a network share/resource. I only want the share/resource to go to Slow-Link mode (Work Offline / Offline Files) if the share/resource is inaccessible, not with a slow latency/connection. However I see the following log in the Event Viewer (Applications and Services\Microsoft\Windows\ Offline Files\Operational):

The network latency is only for users connected to VPN working from home, so as I understand Windows default value for transitioning to Slow-Link mode is 35ms round-trip latency, and the users go up to 100ms round-trip latency on VPN.

And I have already done nearly all the same troubleshooting as demonstrated above. Is this function truly broken on Windows 10 because it is old and not maintained? If that is the case Microsoft should deprecate the function (Slow-Link Mode configuration).

So, from what I understand, in the example below, both will trigger at latency 30 because the root server is the same. I only have one entry in my GPO for * Latency=900, disclaimer is that I just set this up, but it does seem to be working.

Explanation: under \dfs we have all the group directories, so we keep them available with 3 MBit/s and 300 ms. \profiles and \home will only come online if bandwith is equal or more than 3 MBit/s and latency is below or better than 45 ms.

Issue:

The only thing that is currently not working is deploying the settings for all the remote users through VPN via GroupPolicies. Therefore we have set also the following RegKey, but so far no luck. Any ideas? The datatype is Kbit/s here.

For reference, we leveraged offline files & folder redirection hosted on a DFS share, with the user shares being child directories of DFS root along with general business shares. They were not separate namespaces.

These engineers spent the first 4 days trying to find fault with our GPO setups with regard to setting syntax and policy precedence only to find nothing and fall back on quoting me the description text of the GPOs themselves as if that were helpful.

I don't understand why I cannot access any notes offline on my laptop! I never sign out of my Evernote on my laptop and I really don't have a large database of information so it's not a syncing issue. But regardless, if my laptop doesn't connect to wifi for whatever reason, I should still be able to access Evernote and my notes. When I launch Evernote, it just loads and nothing. This experiential use after the new overhaul/redesign is terrible and has completely disregarded desktop/laptop users. Please fix this ASAP!!

The text and feature is tricking users. There is not a full sync of notes on Windows platform. Just installed on my new laptop and preparing for a trip, and testing that i have all offline. Only title, no body. On mobile there is an option to specify what is available offline and it should download. Even there is downloading since hours.

From then on it continues to download all the rest, but it can only do it while the app is open. So after the initial download, you need to leave the app running in the background if you want a fast full download.

That's why we need fearure parity on windows: have the opportunity to select the realyl needed offline notebooks for download AND show what is already available offline. Until now it is fully intransparent on desktop.

And there is a reason why the desktop clients load ALL: These clients allow for bulk operations - and they are the only ones. These operations like tagging a bunch of notes in one go make use of the local database.

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