Dolphin overlay icons not working [with proposed user workaround]

chgonzalez · May 26, 2021, 2:58am

According to https://www.insynchq.com/downloads, version 3.3.9.40955 added support for Dolphin file manager overlay icons. But in my laptop (KDE Neon 5.21 fully updated) it doesn’t work, i.e. not overlay icons are showed.

When I launch Dolphin from console I get this message:

kf.kio.widgets: The "Insync" plugin still installs the desktop file for plugin loading. Please use JSON metadata instead, see KAbstractFileItemActionPlugin class docs for instructions.

Is this a problem with my current setup or there is something wrong with the Dolphin support?

mia · May 26, 2021, 5:29am

Hi @chgonzalez,

Let me check this with our engineers and I’ll update you here

chgonzalez · June 3, 2021, 5:03pm

Hi, what the engineers said?

mia · June 4, 2021, 12:42am

Hi! They are still investigating this, but I will follow it up again for you

Kurt_Ko · June 14, 2021, 9:44am

Hi @chgonzalez

Are you viewing a folder that is currently synced by Insync? (ex. ~/Insync/[EMAIL]/Google Drive/[FOLDER OR FILE]) The status overlay icons are only shown for files that are synced or are currently syncing by Insync

chgonzalez · June 14, 2021, 3:26pm

Yes, of course. But my Insync folder is in /home/myUserName/Google Drive/myUserName@gmail.com and is stored in a NTFS partition. Is this a problem for Insync?

chgonzalez · June 25, 2021, 2:38pm

Still waiting for an answer…

mia · June 27, 2021, 2:30am

Hi @chgonzalez! Apologies for the delay in our responses and thank you for bumping this thread up. I’ve followed this up with our engineer.

chgonzalez · July 7, 2021, 5:38pm

I’ve updated to Insync 3.4.2 but still no overlay icons

chgonzalez · July 16, 2021, 1:33am

Any news from the engineers?

mia · July 19, 2021, 6:21am

Hi @chgonzalez,

I have once again followed up if this has been investigated further and/or lined up for an upcoming release. Thank you for your patience!

mia · July 21, 2021, 2:36am

Hi! Does right clicking on a file show an Insync menu? Also, are you using a non-default theme?

chgonzalez · July 21, 2021, 3:23pm

Yes, there is an Insync menu with two entries: “View on web” and “Share”.

I’m using the default Breeze theme.

mia · July 22, 2021, 5:34am

Got it, thank you! Let me forward this to our engineer and I’ll advise accordingly.

chgonzalez · August 4, 2021, 2:22pm

Any news from the engineer?

chgonzalez · October 7, 2021, 12:05pm

I’ve created another user on my system and Insync is working perfectly there. So I asumed that there was something wrong with my current user configuration.

I’ve removed my .config/Insync and .local/share/Insync folders, renamed my “Google Drive” folder to just “Insync” and lauched the Insync start wizard. The first sync is still in progress but Dolphin overlay icons are already showing up. So I guess that some config was messed up during some update. Even the context menu options are working again.

Thanks for your help.

mia · October 10, 2021, 2:51pm

@chgonzalez I appreciate the updates on both threads!

vfbsilva · September 12, 2022, 8:29pm

@mia I seem to have hit the same issue. As I have many things already setup is there a way I can remove my configs and do not loose track of the folders I want to backup?

mia · September 13, 2022, 4:53am

Hey @vfbsilva,

Removing the configs mean that you have to start from scratch. But for as long as you use the same sync folder when you set it up again, Insync will check the local files that were previously synced and match those with what’s in the cloud.