Removing the drive letter mapping to networks hare indeed resolves the issue.
I got it working by entering safe mode with no network functions enabled and remove the drive map and reboot.
Before I remove drive mappings: Can anyone comment if this requires rebuilding the whole offline cache? What happens to programs that have been configured to use drive letters (eg. to config files, or paths to music in iTunes)? Will they work with UNC paths just like this?
I just spent a full day on restoring my ~700GB offline cache and would be glad if I didn't have to do it again ...
Just as additional datapoint here is my configuration and observations:
- In all my systems I redirected the CSC location from C:\Windows to D:\
- BSOD occured
on (old) Lenovo L520 and brandnew Lenovo L15 - both on Win10 2004
if a certain amount of synchronized files on share X:\ consist of *.lnk files referring to files located on share Y:\
when booting without a (W)LAN connection to the NAS hosting the shares
- BSOD did not occur
never on L520 with Win7 and Win10 1903 (I skipped 1909, being forced into 2004)
if I manually delete all target files of the said *.lnk's from the Manage Offline files > View Offline files
(impractical as a solution as *.lnk's are all over the place in all the shares I want to synchronize)
after switching the method of redirection of CSC from via registry key (CacheLocation) to via symlink-- but only with a smaller set of offline files (including *lnk's). Error returned after full size of ~800GB got sync'ed.
FWIW: I have KB4586781 installed.
In a way my desperation has subsided to a "me too" after reading ths thread :-\
Seems I'm not alone out there and there is some hope that CSC will continue to live (again) ....