Project Professional 2007 local cache

Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 uses a local cache to let you work with projects as if they were stored locally, making the Save and Open operations much faster than in previous versions. You can adjust the cache size and location, and select specific projects to remove from the cache.

Learn more about the local cache

The local cache helps you work more efficiently by synchronizing a local version of your project with the version stored on Project Server.

When you check out a project, the local version is updated with changes made to the server version. As you make changes to the checked-out project, those changes are saved to the local version of the project.

When you check the project back in to Project Server, only those changes that were made while the project was checked out are synchronized to the server version of the project.

While working on a checked-out project, you may want to occasionally save the project to Project Server without checking it back in. When you save the project, it synchronizes the changes, similar to the check-in process. After saving a project, you can continue to work on the project while it is synchronizing your changes with the server. The local caching works in the background. A message is displayed at the bottom of the Project window, indicating the percent that the synchronization is complete, and approximately how much time it should take before the project is synchronized.

Remove projects from the cache

Removing projects from the cache can be helpful in reducing the number of projects you see in the Open dialog box, or in reducing the amount of memory used when you are approaching the cache size limit.

1. On the Tools menu, point to Local Project Cache, and then click Cleanup Cache.
   
2. In the Remove projects from cache section, in the Project Filter list, click Projects not checked out to you or Projects checked out to you to display the corresponding list of projects in the grid.
   
3. Click the project in the grid that you want to remove from the cache, and then click Remove From Cache.