OneDrive adds useless icons to file explorer folders

Office-R & Gentleman · 14. März 2023

From time to time no reproducible reason, OneDrive adds icons to the lower left of the folder symbols in file explorer.I've already tried the "hack" to change the respective key in the registry, but it keeps coming back.The icons are useless because they show, e.g. "PowerPoint", although the folder does not contain any PowerPoints. Usually, folders contain different types of documents, such as Word, Excel, images, ... => An icon does not make senseIf would have like to upload an image showing an example, but this site says "failed to upload".

Fuad Laguda

Hello JJTT_885,

Thank you for coming to the forum.

I am sorry to inform you that OneDrive does not have such features. The way OneDrive works is this:

There are some selected folders that OneDrive can sync, those folders are your complete Desktop, Documents, and Pictures. It will sync all the contents, you cannot select what to sync and what not to sync. It will sync the whole documents in those folders

In this link below you will see all the folders that OneDrive can sync.
https://support.office.com/article/d61a7930-a6fb-4b95-b28a-6552e77c3057

Another thing, you can do is to move the folder directory you want to the OneDrive Folder created for you when you install OneDrive and sign in, you will see it in the left pane of your File explorer.

Give a reply if you need more information

Best Regards
Fuad

Augustine_E

Hallo Dave,

Lass mich versuchen dir zu helfen.

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob das, was du erreichen möchtest, möglich ist, zumindest nicht in der normalen Version von OneDrive. Du kannst das Gegenteil tun; die OneDrive-Ordnerstruktur auf deinem lokalen System annehmen.

Du kannst die folgende Website (auf Englisch) anschauen, dort gibt einige Hinweise zur Verwendung von Bibliotheken:

Use Libraries to View OneDrive Folders and Local Folders. Vielleicht hilft dir der Ansatz.

Wir freuen uns auf deine Rückmeldung.

LG

AEG

Andreas Killer

Es muss kein Leerzeichen sein, es kann auch irgendein anderes unsichtbares Zeichen sein was die Formel zurückgibt.
Wo das jedoch herkommt wird niemand ohne die Datei sagen können.
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Andreas.

Andreas Killer

Um dazu etwas sagen zu können müssen wir die Datei sehen.

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Andreas.

Andreas Killer

Wie kann ich denn eine Datei an meine Antwort ranhängen? Ich sehe nur Felder für die Links und Bilder..

Gar nicht, dafür hast Du eine OneDrive oder Google-Drive oder Dropbox oder ...
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Irgendwo hochladen und den Download-Link hier posten.
Andreas.

Hi,

willkommen im Windows Forum!

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