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Victor Krawciw

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Jan 4, 2021, 6:37:36 AM1/4/21
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Today there was an update on my PC to the Microsoft Onedrive overlay icons. Now since this update the tortoise SVN overlay icons are no longer displaying on my repo folders. I have installed and reinstalled the latest 1.14 release to no avail. Any thoughts?

Stefan

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Jan 7, 2021, 1:20:21 PM1/7/21
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Victor Krawciw

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Jan 8, 2021, 5:31:38 AM1/8/21
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OK - so I used the registry editor to remove the onedrive entries - and this allowed tortoise to work again. However next reboot and Microsoft tried to reinstall again and I had to disallow it. What I do not understand is that on another PC (which has Onedrive and more registry entries than the PC I am having issues with) works OK. 

On Thursday, 7 January 2021 at 18:20:21 UTC Stefan wrote:
https://tortoisesvn.net/faq.html#ovlnotall

David Finnie

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Sep 29, 2024, 11:05:47 PMSep 29
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I had a look in the registry, and noticed that although the Tortoise overlays begin with 2 spaces (presumably in the hope that they are listed first alphabetically and therefore the ones used in preference to any others installed), it seems that Microsoft are also playing this game.

The OneDrive overlays have 5 spaces at the front of their name. Also, Google Drive overlays have 4 spaces.

I modified (via a Rename in the registry) my Tortoise overlays to have an extra 4 spaces (i.e. 6 in total) at the front of their name, and using Task Manager, restarted Windows Explorer. Fixed.

It would be nice if MS could fix this somehow by extending the number of possible overlays past 15. They say it would cause performance problems if they did, but that just sounds like a redesign is required to me.

In any case, it would be nice if the Tortoise project would consider increasing the number of spaces in front of their overlay key names in the registry. I suspect that when I upgrade Tortoise, I'll have to do this again...

Daniel Sahlberg

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Sep 30, 2024, 3:01:09 AMSep 30
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måndag 30 september 2024 kl. 05:05:47 UTC+2 skrev David Finnie:
I had a look in the registry, and noticed that although the Tortoise overlays begin with 2 spaces (presumably in the hope that they are listed first alphabetically and therefore the ones used in preference to any others installed), it seems that Microsoft are also playing this game.

The OneDrive overlays have 5 spaces at the front of their name. Also, Google Drive overlays have 4 spaces.

I modified (via a Rename in the registry) my Tortoise overlays to have an extra 4 spaces (i.e. 6 in total) at the front of their name, and using Task Manager, restarted Windows Explorer. Fixed.

It would be nice if MS could fix this somehow by extending the number of possible overlays past 15. They say it would cause performance problems if they did, but that just sounds like a redesign is required to me.

In any case, it would be nice if the Tortoise project would consider increasing the number of spaces in front of their overlay key names in the registry. I suspect that when I upgrade Tortoise, I'll have to do this again...

On my system, OneDrive has 17 spaces. Nextcloud has 16 spaces. I'm guessing they are involved in a fight over who has the most - adding one more space each time one is updated.

I don't think it would help (much) to engage in that fight, at best Tortoise could win 50% (or in my case 33%) of the time.

Kind regards,
Daniel
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