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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

The correct answer is no 🙅‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

What desktop?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Is it read only?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

What desktop environment are you using?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It may be just the selection of the current drive you're in? Does it show an x on another drive when you select it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Thanks for responding, but no, I have 3 devices plugged in at the moment and the icons don't change regardless of which one I have selected. This is the only one with an 'x' icon. It doesn't appear to prevent me from using it, but I'm unsure if it's indicative of an issue with the device itself. Maybe it just means it isn't a recognised device. Kind of wish Nemo had tooltips or something.