Missing files on home network

[aimeeandbeatles]

Background information: On my main computer, I have a shared folder under Documents. It has a lot of subfolders and files. Anyways I shared the folder. On both the main computer and laptop I mapped it as drive P (don't ask what it stands for )
By the way, I don't use those Windows 7 "homegroup" things (my main computer is Vista anyways). It's just a regular shared folder.

EDIT: Forgot to mention this, but the Documents folder on the main computer is on the D partition.

Problem: On the laptop, random files and subfolders are missing from the mapped network drive. They also don't appear if you browse to it from the network locations. I haven't found any patterns except that it happens a lot to files that have been added/updated since I first shared the folder.
However when I access the mapped drive on the main computer (where it's local) it's fine there.

I've already tried de-sharing and re-sharing and re-mapping the folder (google) but it didn't work.

There's no way to edit any group policy on the laptop as its a home edition (google)

Also there's nothing about offline sharing (google).

Does anyone have any more suggestions?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Background information: On my main computer, I have a shared folder under Documents. It has a lot of subfolders and files. Anyways I shared the folder. On both the main computer and laptop I mapped it as drive P (don't ask what it stands for )
By the way, I don't use those Windows 7 "homegroup" things (my main computer is Vista anyways). It's just a regular shared folder.

EDIT: Forgot to mention this, but the Documents folder on the main computer is on the D partition.

Problem: On the laptop, random files and subfolders are missing from the mapped network drive. They also don't appear if you browse to it from the network locations. I haven't found any patterns except that it happens a lot to files that have been added/updated since I first shared the folder.
However when I access the mapped drive on the main computer (where it's local) it's fine there.

I've already tried de-sharing and re-sharing and re-mapping the folder (google) but it didn't work.

There's no way to edit any group policy on the laptop as its a home edition (google)

Also there's nothing about offline sharing (google).

Does anyone have any more suggestions?

EDIT: Just compared the two sides and theres at least 200 "missing" files... Some of them are desktop.ini and thumbs.db but I doubt its all those

ANOTHER EDIT: Here's an odd bit. I use SyncToy to sync it to a local folder on the laptop. So what I did was I used something else to transfer the files into the laptop-local folder, deleted them from the main-local folder, and the synced it. First time it deleted them but I got them back and then did it again and suddenly they appeared in the shared folder. Hmmm........