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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...
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...