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Missing icons on files in Explorer

On Windows, the status icons for backed up or synced files may disappear.

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Written by Mathias
Updated over a week ago

On Windows, the status icons for backed up or synced files may disappear. This is because there are only a limited number of slots for such icons in Windows - and these slots can be occupied by other programs.

There are two ways to fix the problem:

  1. The simple solution:
    Reinstall Onlime on your computer โ€“ just on top of the already installed version and without removing Onlime first. This will update the Onlime libraries in Windows, so the icons should come back.
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  2. The advanced solution:

    Check if this is the case by doing the following:

    1. Open RegEdit (Registry Editor)

    2. Copy the following path or navigate to: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

    3. Check that "JottaExt1", "JottaExt2" and "JottaExt3" are at the top, as shown here:

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