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Offline files - Windows 7 - unusable

Offline files - Windows 7 - unusable

Offline files - Windows 7 - unusable

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I used to use folder synchronization with software like Syncback to work offline with my laptop. My main PC and the laptop were Windows XP.
I recently changed PC and OS. I'm under Windows 7. Then I looked at the "offline files" feature of the OS which were improved since Vista.

I'm very disappointed with this feature. It takes about 5 minutes to save an assembly in progress about 20Mo large with most of the parts being virtual when working on the laptop. It is not efficient enough for productivity. It seems to take the same time if I'm online or offline. The hard drive works hard during the saving. I'm most of the time under 1Mo/s I/O when saving.

Does someone gave it a try and had the same experience? It is a crap feature? Now I came back to synchronization with Syncback.

The laptop drive is good (100Mo+/s with HDTune). The network is Gigabit and I go up to 80Mo/s on big files but it doesn't matter when I'm offline.

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