https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/41.aspxIf you're not sure where to ask your question, ask it here. If necessary, our moderators will make sure it gets classified in the correct board.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/105692.aspxThu, 03 Mar 2016 16:15:53 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:105692NICK10810https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/105692.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=105692<p>&nbsp;This question probably fits an existing forum more suited than this. I just don&#39;t know what it would be. <br />I need to offload a bunch of SharePoint forms library records (InfoPath XML files) to a Windows file share. Our SharePoint administrators are severely limiting the maximum number of records for our lists and libraries.</p><p>My thoughts were to take forms library records that are more than five years old and off-load them to a file share. However, when I open the XML file from the file share, it still points back to the xsn template of the&nbsp;library from which it came. This makes sense, however, I need the xml file to be independent of the SharePoint library and need to be able to open the file fro the file share regardless of&nbsp;whether the SharePoint library even&nbsp;exists. I hope this makes sense.</p><p>Is there any way to offload these xml files to a file share and still be able&nbsp;to open them, perhaps have the XSN template in the same file&nbsp;share folder and&nbsp;have the XML files point to THAT XSN ?</p><p>I&#39;d appreciate any help. I need to get hundreds of InfoPath XML records off the SharePoint, yet I still need to be able to access the&nbsp;data.</p><p>By the way, most of these XML forms records have file attachments. So, I&#39;m not sure that converting them to PDFs would work in this case.&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks!&nbsp;</p>