![]() ![]() In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 the default sync interval is 120 minutes. In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 the default sync interval is 360 minutes. When selected all configured settings will apply to shares in user selected Work Offline mode as well.If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Windows performs a background sync of offline folders in the slow-link mode at a default interval with the start of the sync varying between 0 and 60 additional minutes. This mode is in effect when a user selects the Work Offline button for a specific share. Use the 'Maximum Allowed Time Without A Sync' value to ensure that all network folders on the machine are synchronized with the server on a regular basis.You can also configure Background Sync for network shares that are in user selected Work Offline mode. ![]() Use 'Blockout Start Time' and 'Blockout Duration' to set a period of time where background sync is disabled. Use the 'Sync Interval' and 'Sync Variance' values to override the default sync interval and variance settings. It works in background, no user interaction is required. To control slow-link mode use the "Configure slow-link mode" policy setting.If you enable this policy setting you can control when Windows synchronizes in the background while operating in slow-link mode. Your files will be synchronized immediately when they are created, updated or deleted. Dropbox was even better - I could run a macro based on WIFI SSID name and issue a command line to enable or disable sync.)īest I've managed to do so far is use an app like "Little Snitch" to choke a particular apps access to the TCP/IP stack and fool drive into thinking I wasn't connected to the internet.This policy setting controls when background synchronization occurs while operating in slow-link mode and applies to any user who logs onto the specified machine while this policy is in effect. Get to the hotel and re-enable Sync and away it goes, matching everything up. (With Sync, I could kill the sync app and all my local files were fully accessible and editable. If I leave it running, it hogs the bandwidth. I can shut down Drive - but then I lose access to my offline files. Unless there is some secret that I haven't discovered, I'm in a catch 22. Or I am using my phone's hotspot and a coworker drops a HUGE InDesign file into an offline sync folder - chewing through my data plan. ![]() Then GoGo decides you are using too much bandwidth and throttles you - even on other apps. If you are working in a throttled/limited bandwidth environment, this can be problematic.įor example - on inflight Wifi - if you have a synced folder that you are making many (even small) modifications to, Drive will blithely try to update all of those files - hogging bandwidth. I've (mostly) adapted to using Box Drive instead of Box Sync.īut a key feature that was lost is the ability to NOT SYNC folders that are marked for offline use.īecause of the way the offline/cache is stored, the Box Drive MUST be running in order to access those folders. You either are forced to background sync or not have access to your MFO files.ĭisable Box Drive background syncing for low bandwidth connections ![]() Because MFO and caching are stored in a "container" that is only available while Box Drive is running - there is no way to access MFO files while connected to a bandwidth limited internet connection. This feature would allow background syncing to be turned off for Box Drive. See below for link and post in the Box Community. ![]()
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