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12 September 2007

AskMetachat What does the black square on this icon mean?→[More:]It's on a text file I created, called "words2.dic". There's another .dic file in the same directory that doesn't have the black bit. What does it mean?

post by: matthewr at: 11:25 | 4 comments

I've never seen that before. Could it be the Offline icon?

When o is set, the file's icon contains a small black circle in the lower left hand corner. This may also be described as a black box that contains a white circle and the white circle contains a few black pixels (I can't determine what they are supposed to represent).

From here.

posted by iconomy 12 September | 11:37

According to this forum post,

This means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long time to access.
The black clock is sometimes seen even if your system is not equipped with Hierarchical Storage Management. When this happens, it's because some program (typically a setup program) didn't check error codes properly.

Some more stuff can be found here.

posted by Daniel Charms 12 September | 12:27

Thanks, ico and DC.

posted by matthewr 12 September | 18:32

The attr utility can change it for you. (The standard Windows attrib cannot.)

posted by stilicho 12 September | 19:26

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