His article also mentioned they stopped putting the offline overlay on individual files and used it only on the folder. My DropBox icons start at 24th on the list, so I get the file drawer icon, indicating it will take longer to access the file. The "file" we see is a pointer to the file since the actual file is offline and it will take a little longer to open than it would if stored locally.Īnother Raymond Chen article mentioned only the first 15 custom overlays on the custom overlay list are used. This means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long time to access.Īlthough we're not archiving to tape anymore, the icon is used when the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE flag is set, which is why it is used for files synchronized using a cloud service.
I found an article from 2003 by Microsoft’s Raymond Chen that referenced the black clock:Ī black clock. Googling for “windows black clock overlay icon” was a success.
It showed a black clock icon in the same position in the file.
Windows stores many icons in the Shell32.dll file (%SystemRoot%\system32\SHEL元2.dll).I checked the file attributes, and they were fine. Google searches turned up several questions asking what the icon was, but the best guess was the file attributes were corrupt.This is correct for offline files as the file on the hard drive is a link to the online file. I knew the files with the icon were offline – the file properties showed the file size as 0 byte.Since upgrading to Windows 11, all of the offline Smart Sync files in Dropbox have an ugly brown icon on the lower left, instead of the light gray X I had in Windows 10.Īfter a couple of people asked about it and had it on their offline OneDrive files, I dug a little deeper.
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