Windows 10: ALL photos on harddrive in the "Picture" folder have large green checkmarks

I'm helping a friend.. ALL her pictures on her computer hard drive in the "Picture" folder have large green check marks that we cannot get rid of ... at First I thought it was OneDrive but It is disabled and the green marks are still there... then I thought it might be a setting on Picasa that was causing it, but the settings are right and the green marks are still there... Is there anything else in Windows 10 that would cause these check marks and How do I get rid of them for her... I'm stumped here now and not finding a solution for them... She just had a new harddrive installed abou

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Green checkmarks missing in OneDrive for Business

Hi -

I'm a OneDrive for Business user, running Windows 10.

According to the blue icon in the taskbar, it appears that all my OneDrive files are in sync . However, when I look at the list of files in Microsoft Explorer, there are no green checks to confirm their synced status. I have followed advice in previous posts
on this problem, including this one from 2015:

The reason could be if the settings is disabled in registry. I suggest you to download Autoruns from the link below.Autoruns for Windows - Sysinternals

Then follow the steps below.

• Eexecute the Autoruns and from the program look for the entries that say OneDrive1, OneDrive2 and OneDrive3 in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers.
• Check all three boxes. If you are asked to Run As Administrator (UAC), agree and continue.
• Start OneDrive again.
• Your folders will show the green checkmarks now.

It didn't work. There were no OneDrive entries under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers. (see screen shot below)

Any other advice please? I like to see the green checks there as proof that my files definitely are in the cloud. I don't really want to mess around with the registry again as I'm way out of my depth.

Thanks.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Folder Size And Checkmark questions, Please

a) "Folder size displayed on desktop larger"?
You want the picture of folders bigger?
Go to your Desktop, hold down Control on your keyboard, and scroll up, one notch at a time. This increases the physical size of the picture of the items on the Desktop

b) Green checkmark?
That is OneDrive. You can uninstall OneDrive, and that should remove the green checkmarks.




Also... Reinstalled Windows 10? Then you can change the W7 to W10. Winky face.