Hide Synchronization Errors

[Brazen]

I find it hard to believe that this issue has not been addressed before but dang if I couldn't google for it or find it here in the forums. Anyway, we synchronize files on our corporate network to our laptops, so we can work on stuff at home. Basically, we have My Documents redirected to a network share. The problem is some people have Access databases that they keep in their My Documents, but Windows XP will not synchronize .mdb files, which is fine.

People complain about the error message it gives though. Is there anyway to hide the error message after a synchronization. Or even completely hide the fact that a synchronization is occuring. I would think this could be done with a registry hack or with a Group Policy setting, but I have not had any luck finding such hacks or settings so far.

 

[Brazen]

No replies?! dag yo.

 

[Brazen]

one more bump, for old times sake

 

[Garion]

No offense, but if I was trying to synchronize something to work on it at home and it didn't sync right, I'd want to see the error so I knew I had to get the doc manually.

How about putting all those access DB's in another place on the server that isn't automatically synchronized and give users another way to get them onto their laptop?

- G

 

[Brazen]

The users already know the databases aren't going to be synced and that's not a problem; they don't need to be reminded of it every single time they log off. Putting the files in a new location is of course doable, but would definately require a lot more time and work than changing a registry entry to disable the reporting. Plus it would require cooperation on the users part and as anyone in IT knows, user cooperation is about the last thing you want to rely on.