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Comment by FroshKiller | Hacker News Reader

I think he's talking about the icons you see over folders in Explorer added by some applications. Dropbox will add icons indicating the sync status of your Dropbox folder over the folder icon itself.

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Ahhh, it says a "few" and then three and then two... and I see 10 as well, and no overlays.

But, interesting, I never knew the overlays were limited.

When he says "Dropbox wins by having three spaces," he doesn't mean there are three entries. He means Dropbox prepends three spaces to the identifiers so they're sorted first in the list:

   "   DropboxExt01" vs. "DropboxExt01"

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