What's with the cross?

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What's with the cross?

Hi.

Does anyone know why is there a red cross on the icon here?

This device is a Corsair USB flash drive. I initially thought it may be because the data was corrupted as there were a couple of years where it remained unconnected and I know SSD does not like that. But I formatted the drive (ExFAT) and it still shows up with a red cross in Nemo file manager.

Any idea what this actually means?

Thanks for any insight.

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bruce965

lemmy.ml

I assumed that's the "no icon" placeholder for Gnome. I saw it around as well.

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lemmy.ml

For reference, this is what the "Checking for Updates" page on the Pop!_OS store looks like for me. This icon feels out of place, that's why I assumed this is a placeholder that replaced the correct icon that went missing due to some kind of minor problem with my installation.

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lemm.ee

Thank you, this was helpful. I'm also using Pop!_OS, so this reinforces my belief that it's just a graphical issue. I also see this when checking for updates sometimes.

Richard

lemmy.world

for me it looks like the icon is broken, if there's no other warning i'm sure the volume is working fine

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lemm.ee

I reckon this is probably what the issue is. Maybe it's of a device type where an icon wasn't created or where some reference to the icon's image is broken. Thank you.