Clearing CSC folder contents

[Patrick]

Hi all,

 

I have an issue at a school in which Sync Center was enabled for users (all users) and now the CSC folder is massive and taking a lot of disk space. I've now corrected the mistake, and switched Sync Center off as we actually don't need it. However, the folder remains and i'm struggling to delete it. I've tried the following regedit but had no luck

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/942974/on-a-windows-vista-based-or-windows-7-based-client-computer-you-can-st

 

Any ideas?

[themightymrp]

Have you tried the suggestion here?

 

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adb3490b-fe4c-40b4-9f8c-58d3df81a5e2/how-do-i-delete-the-csc-directory?forum=w8itpronetworking

[robyholmes]

I've normally used Method 1 on this thread:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/24346edb-80ed-49a7-b7b5-aecebff7b725/how-to-delete-the-offline-file-cache-or-reset-the-offline-file-cache-in-windows-10?forum=win10itpronetworking

[Patrick]

Hi! Yes, i've manually taken ownership of the folders, i can browse them but i can't delete, I can't delete from CMD as admin either. It doesn't even error out. So strange!

[Arthur]

This method works for me.

 

@echo off
REG ADD "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters" /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

:: Reboot for the changes to take effect.
shutdown /r /t 00 /f

 

You will also need to delete the cached user profiles for Windows to clear each users offline files cache.

Edited October 28, 2019 by Arthur

[Patrick]

Clearing the local profiles did the trick! Thank you!