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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] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] richardisaguy 17 points 3 months 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 3 months 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] 11 points 3 months ago

What desktop environment are you using?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Is it read only?

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

What desktop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The correct answer is no 🙅‍♀️