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Read Only (Padlock Icon) files - OFDB 17.3.6743.1212
The reason could be the following:
"When syncing libraries that require check out, or libraries with required columns or metadata, the files are synced as read-only. If you do make changes to these files, the changes will not be synced back to Office 365." from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get-started-syncing-SharePoint-sites-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-Preview-6de9ede8-5b6e-4503-80b2-6190f3354a88
Thank you Salvatore, my files do fall into this category, do you know if Microsoft have any plans to fix the 'know issues'? We have many document libraries where we have required metadata, so this will impact our users if its not fixed before the client hits GA.
I have not heard of a specific committment by MS to solve this problem. But shortly (before the end of the month) the new OneDrive client should reach GA and we will see...