I know there has been a lot of posts in the past about the OneDrive for Business folder and file status icons and that these do now work fine for folders and files displayed in the folder pane, however they still do not show up in the folder tree panes and this is somewhat annoying, they show correctly in Windows File Explorer. I am running Opus 13.21 and am on Windows 11 Enterprise 22H2 (fully up to date).
Try turning off Preferences / Folders / Folder Display / Show cloud storage status icons in the Status column if you want the status to appear as icon-overlays instead of in a separate column.
But keep in mind that icon overlays in Windows are not always reliable. The system only supports a handful of overlays (per process) and something else may use the slots up first in any given process.
I tried that setting and all that happens is that the status icons disappear in the folder window, no overlay icons appear.
What I am really looking for is that the status is shown in the Folder Tree window pane not only the folder/files window. In other words the same behaviour as Windows File Explorer.
I found the only way to solve this was to set a group policy setting to disable the file on demand feature for OneDrive for business. After that all the overlays came back.
Yes! You should always disable the On Demand Feature. It is horrible! The code is years old and on Macintosh is has so many bugs, it makes OSX completely unusable. And on Windows it always eats resources and fails to sync properly...
Also, if you disable it, the Explorer looks fine and operates fast.
We run a 15 person business of it really effectively. I think files on demand is failry necessary for us and it does work extremely well. Problems came in when we went from Win10 to Win11. File Explorer is very slow when using OneDrive with Win11. No problems with dopus though. Its just frustrating thats its slow for everyone. I will remain on dopus until at least they fix it.
I'd reallt like to know how @allisong got OneDrive at root of his folder tree.
