Making files available offline
Many faculty and students in the Lundquist College of Business use their I: Drive to store files. Sometimes, however, you can't connect to your I: drive. You might be travelling or your Internet connection might be down. You can still work with your files, however, if you make them available offline. You can then synchronize your files when you are reconnected to your I:Drive.
Note that making files available offline only makes sense on your own computer because a copy of the files is stored on your computer. Don't try to do this on a lab computer.
Here are the steps (steps 1-7 need only be performed once):
1. Open the folder that you want to make available offline (e.g. your I: Drive folder)
2. Click on Tools from the menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on Offline Files
5. Click on Enable offline files
6. Choose your prefered synchronization times (my preference is to synchronize only when logging off).
7. Click OK.
8. For each folder that you want available offline, right click the folder and select 'Make available offline".
That's it - hope it helps.
