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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?
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This means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long time to access.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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