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Can't remove Sync Partnership

This is the second time this has happened after I re-installed Windows 7 to fix it the first time. When I have copied an W7 standard folder like My Pictures\Slideshows or moved the location of Username\Downloads to a network share it has created a Sync Partnership and I now have a Sync icon in the system tray.

How do I remove the Sync Partnership and thus get rid of the icon?

The previous post in "Can't end Sych Partnership" does not work and as you can see in their someone has mentioned that it didn't work for them either.

I cannot delete the Sync Partnership and I have already unselected "Make available offline" on the folder yet the link still remains in Sync Manager. I have searched the internet and tried all sorts of suggestions such as adding FormatDatabase to a registry key and taking ownership of the CSC folder and deleting the offline hidden folders. None of this has worked and it seems that many people have the same issue.

How hard can it be to simply undo a Sync Partnership?

Any ideas?
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Hello Vic Tabram,

Thank you for posting to the Microsoft Answers Forum.

If yu can't delete the sync partnership from the Gui, you need to do it manually.

Go to C:\Windows\CSC\v2.0.6\namespace

and then delete the server or folder that you want to remove from the partnership, and reboot.

It's possible that you have to take ownership of certain folder.

Ex: to take ownership of the folder CSC

- right click the CSC folder, chick properties.
- click security
- advanced
- owner
- edit
- select or add your username to the list
- put a check mark in "REplace owner on ..."
- OK

Do this for the folder that you are not allowed to see.

However, removing the partnership manally may prevent offline folders from working.
You can get it to work again by restoring the permissions on folder
c:\windows\CSC to its original settings: 

Go to the permission tab and make sure the  checkbox -include "inheritable permissions from this object's parent"-
is checked. Then reboot and verify the permissions are correct.

Offline folders will now work again.

Thanks,

Marilyn
Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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Hi Marilyn,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I had tried this previously and although it meant that the partnership is now empty (when you try to drill into it), the partnership itself is still listed thus keeping the sync icon in system tray. I've now just disabled offline folders on a clean install so it hopefully never creates them in the first place. I do think that this is a bug or a poorly implemented feature and should be escalated for a fix in a future update or service pack.

Regards

Vic

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