What the Various OneDrive Icons Mean

This is meant to serve as an informational cheat sheet to inform you of what the different OneDrive icons mean.

Grey OneDrive cloud icon

OneDrive paused icon

OneDrive icon with sync pending arrows

The concentric arrows indicate that OneDrive is syncing, looking for changes, or processing changes.

Three little blue lines

Red circle with white cross or X

People icon next to a file or folder

Padlock icon