(posted and mailed)

Hiya, Cliff!

Thanks for all your good work at Fermi, and for getting going with this reporting for the new school year.

Are you sure that was Ms. Freckleton, not her sister?  :-)

Okay okay, getting serious with some tech advice.  Here's how to turn off that synchronization annoyance.  (This is in XP terms, I'm not sure how much is the same or even available in W2K.) :


&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  Probably need to log in as techco
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Open MyComputer, or any file-browse window.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under Tools menu, choose Folder Options
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Folder Options panel, go to Offline Files tab
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Click Delete Files; in Confirm window, select "Delete both the temporary offline versions and the versions that are always available offline"; click OK.  Let it do the deletion.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Back in the Folder Options tab) Uncheck "Enable Offline Files". Click OK

Strictly speaking, only the step of dis-enabling the Offline Files feature is all that's needed to stop the synch operations.  But it makes sense to do the deletion and reclaim any space devoted to these.  

We're all psyching up for the Fermi Marathon later this week.

  ==Mitch