Gridsync relies on Magic-Folder's status API in order to determine the overall "status" of a given folder (e.g., "Syncing" vs. "Up to date") and will not declare/display a folder to be "Up to date" until some remote activity has been observed to complete successfully -- in other words, until there is good reason to believe that Magic-Folder has successfully completed a remote scan and/or determined that no further upload/download operations are required to synchronize the local state with the remote state. Prior observing such activity, the "Status" column remains blank -- on purpose, on the assumption that Gridsync cannot know with confidence whether the local state actually matches the remote one until there is some evidence that a scan has completed successfully. Unfortunately, the only way that Gridsync can make such a determination currently is by watching the uploads and downloads lists provided by the Magic-Folder status API (and then marking a folder as being "Up to date" when -- and only when -- all pending upload/download operations have completed successfully).

Unfortunately, this rather conservative informational policy can lead to a bad or confusing user experience since a user who makes no changes to a folder will see no updates to the "Status" column -- at least not until one such change is observed. Thankfully, the Magic-Folder project is adding support for tracking the last successful "scan" time -- the implementation of which, hopefully, will allow Gridsync to determine whether or not a folder is up to date independently of observing the completion of any upload or download operations (since a scan that completes successfully and which isn't followed by queued upload/download operations can be taken as an indication that the local state indeed matches the remote one -- in other words, that the folder is "up to date").

Needless to say, Gridsync should be updated to consult the last scan time so that determinations about "up to date"-ness can be made earlier, and without waiting for an upload/download operation to complete. In addition, the "blank" status column that appears prior to this should probably be filled with something that faithfully indicates this state -- such as "Waiting for scan", "Waiting to update" "Checking status", or equivalent.