Re: Purpose of Offline Cache files

[BobbyGene]

Basically the question I have, but not just concerning OneNote. I think all
programs burn up too much space on a hard drive wanting to store to the
system file. I am experimenting to have all of my Microsoft Office
applications data, including Business Contact Manager for Outlook, channel
all of its' data, archives, and backups, to a folder I have set up under my
user, but not in "My Documents". This way, I can keep my system folders
hidden, and occasionally open this "PC and Program" folder to clean it out of
old data that even disc clean up won't.
--
Just a Novice, Single User, trying to learn.


"Grant Robertson" wrote:

> In article <eqKs#iwjGHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, pds-
> ms@nospam.pschmid.net says...
> > You can delete the Offline Cache files, but ON will always create them
> > again. With ON 2007, you need twice the disk space if your notes are
> > local.
>
> OK, I am sorry, that is unacceptable as well. You should give users the
> option of whether they intend to share files with others and only then
> use a cache for only the shared files. To simply double the required hard
> drive space for everyone just to save an extra option in a dialog is just
> ludicrous. And this for a program that Microsoft suggests that we put our
> entire life of notes into. What the heck are these guys thinking anyway?
> I'm not going to just run out and buy a 300 GB laptop hard drive becuase
> you want to waste all my space.
>

 

[Rainald Taesler]

So what is your question?
You jumped on a 3 1/2 years old thread but I can not detect anything in
your posting asking for something

Might you pls explain what you what to know?

TIA
Rainald


BobbyGene wrote:
> Basically the question I have, but not just concerning OneNote. I
> think all programs burn up too much space on a hard drive wanting to
> store to the system file. I am experimenting to have all of my
> Microsoft Office applications data, including Business Contact
> Manager for Outlook, channel all of its' data, archives, and backups,
> to a folder I have set up under my user, but not in "My Documents".
> This way, I can keep my system folders hidden, and occasionally open
> this "PC and Program" folder to clean it out of old data that even
> disc clean up won't.
>
>> In article <eqKs#iwjGHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, pds-
>> ms@nospam.pschmid.net says...
>>> You can delete the Offline Cache files, but ON will always create
>>> them again. With ON 2007, you need twice the disk space if your
>>> notes are local.
>>
>> OK, I am sorry, that is unacceptable as well. You should give users
>> the option of whether they intend to share files with others and
>> only then use a cache for only the shared files. To simply double
>> the required hard drive space for everyone just to save an extra
>> option in a dialog is just ludicrous. And this for a program that
>> Microsoft suggests that we put our entire life of notes into. What
>> the heck are these guys thinking anyway? I'm not going to just run
>> out and buy a 300 GB laptop hard drive becuase you want to waste all
>> my space.

 

[Turtle23]

On Jan 10, 9:46 am, "Rainald Taesler" <taes...@gmx.de> wrote:
> So what is your question?
> You jumped on a 3 1/2 years old thread but I can not detect anything in
> your posting asking for something
>
> Might you pls explain what you what to know?
>
> TIA
> Rainald
>
>
>
> BobbyGene wrote:
> > Basically the question I have, but not just concerning OneNote. I
> > think all programs burn up too much space on a hard drive wanting to
> > store to the system file. I am experimenting to have all of my
> > Microsoft Office applications data, including Business Contact
> > Manager for Outlook, channel all of its' data, archives, and backups,
> > to a folder I have set up under my user, but not in "My Documents".
> > This way, I can keep my system folders hidden, and occasionally open
> > this "PC and Program" folder to clean it out of old data that even
> > disc clean up won't.
>
> >> In article <eqKs#iwjGHA.3...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, pds-
> >> m...@nospam.pschmid.net says...
> >>> You can delete the Offline Cache files, but ON will always create
> >>> them again. With ON 2007, you need twice the disk space if your
> >>> notes are local.
>
> >> OK, I am sorry, that is unacceptable as well. You should give users
> >> the option of whether they intend to share files with others and
> >> only then use a cache for only the shared files. To simply double
> >> the required hard drive space for everyone just to save an extra
> >> option in a dialog is just ludicrous. And this for a program that
> >> Microsoft suggests that we put our entire life of notes into. What
> >> the heck are these guys thinking anyway? I'm not going to just run
> >> out and buy a 300 GB laptop hard drive becuase you want to waste all
> >> my space.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

What is the purpose of these cache files? More importantly, do I need
them?
I use my notebook for all of medical school inserting powerpoints
daily. During class I share notes with classmates and we all take
notes on the same "screen". We don't share entire notebooks, just one
page that has the powerpoint for that class. I use one note book for
all of medical school becasue I like all of it in one place and
ability to search everything.
I have my Onenote notebooks (11.8gb) in my documents folder and then
the OneNoteOfflineCache_Files (2.43gb) which seems to just have sort
of random copies of documents from 1/21/2010 back to 11/28/2008 I put
into onenote as either a insert notes as printout or print directly to
onenote through powerpoint. Onenote backup file which is 10gb. No
audio files. A OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache 15gb file. When I do
disk defragment I get error messages saying the .onecache file is
fragmented and after the scan it also lists some other files I can't
remember.
What can I do to get some space back besides getting a bigger hard
drive?