Icons not showing in OneDrive folder

[Kevin Vis]

I am trying to set up a working copy within a OneDrive linked folder that has the files locally on my PC. I know this might not be a good idea and still have to discuss if we want to do this within our company, but I am testing if it works.

During testing I noticed the TortoiseSVN icons are not showing up on the folders, while they do when I check out in a folder that is not linked to OneDrive. I am working on Windows 11 and currently run TortoiseSVN 1.14.3, Build 29387 - 64 Bit. I have already tried removing the OneDrive overlay icons from the registry and adding leading spaces to the Tortoise icons, rebooting, and TortoiseSVN clean up option to refresh shell overlays. Is this a known issue for current versions of OneDrive?

Does anyone have experience with the current version of TortoiseSVN and OneDrive? To me it looks like OneDrive is completely blocking any overlay icons in OneDrive folders since they have implemented the Status column in the Explorer instead of the OneDrive overlay icons.

[Daniel Sahlberg]

Short answer: Don't store the working copy on OneDrive.

If you search the forum, you will find numerous threads describing issues with OneDrive, the most recent: https://groups.google.com/g/tortoisesvn/c/jhOz-zPMLJ8/m/S40u44PCBwAJ

Slightly longer answer: There is a significant risk that OneDrive doesn't play well with the SQLite database in the .svn folder. There are also some indications that OneDrive will not sync the .svn folder at all, in which case the folder will not be treated as a working copy at all (except on the computer where it was originally checked out).

Kind regards,

Daniel

 

[Kevin Vis]

The idea is that it only needs to work on the computer that it was checked out on and that the one drive only functions as a back up of that PC.

The files will also not be on-Demand, but always availible on the PC. I understand that OneDrive might still be a bad idea, but for now I just want to understand what the issue with the icons is.

From some obscure mentions on the web it looks like the overlay icons for OneDrive within the Explorer have been deprecated, but I see no obvious reason why other overlay icons would not work at all.

Does anyone have any experience with this behaviour from TortoiseSVN on OneDrive or know if OneDrive folders have unequivically been blocked from displaying overlay icons in the newest versions of Windows11 / OneDrive?

Op maandag 29 juli 2024 om 18:09:17 UTC+2 schreef daniel.l...@gmail.com:

[Kristina Burmatova]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 11:33 AM Kevin Vis via TortoiseSVN <torto...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The idea is that it only needs to work on the computer that it was checked out on and that the one drive only functions as a back up of that PC.

The files will also not be on-Demand, but always availible on the PC. I understand that OneDrive might still be a bad idea, but for now I just want to understand what the issue with the icons is.

From some obscure mentions on the web it looks like the overlay icons for OneDrive within the Explorer have been deprecated, but I see no obvious reason why other overlay icons would not work at all.

Does anyone have any experience with this behaviour from TortoiseSVN on OneDrive or know if OneDrive folders have unequivically been blocked from displaying overlay icons in the newest versions of Windows11 / OneDrive?

Hi Kevin,

I've found the following note on the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/troubleshoot/windows/win32/icon-overlay-handlers-windows-shell page:

"Also, icon overlay handlers aren't used under folders that are synchronized with cloud file system, such as OneDrive and OneDrive for Business. The handlers aren't even executed under such folders."

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With best regards,
Kristina Burmatova
VisualSVN Team

[John AC Lupe (John AC Lupe)]

Hej Kevin,

I've learned the hard way the limits of OneDrive: This software works good as long you do not have more than 300.000 files. If your repository contains many files, you'll also get many files in the .svn folder. The combination might not break the synchronization, but you'll get a real performance penalty. Including a large time gap when synchronizing to the remotes.

From my point of view - if you need synchronization, just use Syncthing ( https://syncthing.net/ ) or any other utility you prefer. But usually you should use Tortoise SVN as client to ensure proper working with the VCS and reduce the problems, e. g. conflicts will be resolved  or marked. Using any synchronization software will make developers life much more complicated than usual, add an additional bunch of tools to the already existing zoo and ensures grey hairs if you're not able to tear them out.

Regards

Jochen