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SharePoint Online with Forced Checkout and Synced Folders
I am afraid you have not searched in the right places... ;-)
For the official Microsoft statement, look for "Libraries with Checkout" in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3125202/restrictions-and-limitations-when-you-sync-files-and-folders
A couple of threads in this community are the following:
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-for-Business/Read-Only-Padlock-Icon-files-OFDB-17-3-6743-1212/m-p/38428#M952
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-for-Business/Onedrive-readonly-green-locks/m-p/39365#M981
But there are others.
In these threads, of course, are discussed several reasons for the green locks, not only mandatory checkouts.
Hope it helps...
This subject has already been discussed in several other threads: you can search for them.
Making short a long story: NGSC syncs libraries with mandatory check-out as read-only (showing the green padlock). At the moment this behavior is by design. Nobody knows if and when this limitation will be removed.
How about some search terms I should've used instead? Or a link to just one of those several other threads.
I looked for the following terms (boolean and quoted searches included) on the Community...
- Require documents to be checked out
- Force checkout
- Sync folder check out
- All of the above with both permutations of "checkout" and "check out"
- And the corresponding searches in Google as well
Most of the responses I see are about native Office file formats (and Office program interfaces for checking in and out) and normal synced folders, but I still have yet to find one that addresses the situation with this setting enabled.
This subject has already been discussed in several other threads: you can search for them.
I'm sorry, but that response sucked. What part of "FWIW, I have reviewed https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Top-questions-about-check-out-check-in-and-versions-7e941339-e972-4c7a-a79a-80a1fcf84076 and have looked for an answer to this question in various spots, but have not found any." was ambiguous?
I am afraid you have not searched in the right places... ;-)
For the official Microsoft statement, look for "Libraries with Checkout" in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3125202/restrictions-and-limitations-when-you-sync-files-and-folders
A couple of threads in this community are the following:
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-for-Business/Read-Only-Padlock-Icon-files-OFDB-17-3-6743-1212/m-p/38428#M952
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-for-Business/Onedrive-readonly-green-locks/m-p/39365#M981
But there are others.
In these threads, of course, are discussed several reasons for the green locks, not only mandatory checkouts.
Hope it helps...
Yes, that does indeed help. Thank you. For anyone that stumbles across this message in the future, this is what it read...
I did actually search the Microsoft site before I posted here, but didn't find this section in this article.