Black clock icon

Windows Server 2003 STD, SP2, IE8, Avira AntiVir. A subfolder of My
Documents, that has a lot of subfolders, suddenly appeared with a black
clock icon. According to:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/2000/Q_21587254.html

....means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long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

Since I don't have any tape backup and the folder is very large to move/copy
it all to another volume, how can I remove this black clock icon?

I'm very curious about this. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Strange. Here you write "Windows Server 2003 STD", and in an identical
multiposted thread posted 15 minutes later in a WinXP newsgroup it is all of
a sudden "Windows XP, SP3". Are you saying that the phenomenon occurs on
several machines? Or are you adjusting the OS to suit the newsgroup? If so
then have a look here about the merits of crossposting vs. multiposting:
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm


"Tyler Durden" <abuse@antispam.org> wrote in message
news:epfJSE4xJHA.4012@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Windows Server 2003 STD, SP2, IE8, Avira AntiVir. A subfolder of My
> Documents, that has a lot of subfolders, suddenly appeared with a black
> clock icon. According to:
>
> http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/2000/Q_21587254.html
>
> ...means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long
> time to access.
>
> Since I don't have any tape backup and the folder is very large to
> move/copy it all to another volume, how can I remove this black clock
> icon?
>
> I'm very curious about this. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>

 

hi pegasus, you're right, it is much more the case of a cross-post as the
very few info related is for 2000/2003/xp than doing a multi post. btw,
problem still unsolved... seems to be an attribute, but how to manipulate
it?

thank you.


"Pegasus [MVP]" <news@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:OPJikZ4xJHA.1424@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Strange. Here you write "Windows Server 2003 STD", and in an identical
> multiposted thread posted 15 minutes later in a WinXP newsgroup it is all
> of a sudden "Windows XP, SP3". Are you saying that the phenomenon occurs
> on several machines? Or are you adjusting the OS to suit the newsgroup? If
> so then have a look here about the merits of crossposting vs.
> multiposting: http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>
> "Tyler Durden" <abuse@antispam.org> wrote in message
> news:epfJSE4xJHA.4012@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Windows Server 2003 STD, SP2, IE8, Avira AntiVir. A subfolder of My
>> Documents, that has a lot of subfolders, suddenly appeared with a black
>> clock icon. According to:
>>
>> http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/2000/Q_21587254.html
>>
>> ...means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very
>> long time to access.
>>
>> Since I don't have any tape backup and the folder is very large to
>> move/copy it all to another volume, how can I remove this black clock
>> icon?
>>
>> I'm very curious about this. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>

 

"Tyler Durden" <abuse@antispam.org> wrote in message
news:%23Vcvq85xJHA.1420@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> hi pegasus, you're right, it is much more the case of a cross-post as the
> very few info related is for 2000/2003/xp than doing a multi post. btw,
> problem still unsolved... seems to be an attribute, but how to manipulate
> it?
>
> thank you.
>

Ttyler,

I have not seen this problem, but I found the following link, which I quoted
from below. I hope it helps, for I have no other ideas otherwise.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/2000/Q_21587254.html

/quoted from above link:
====
What are those little overlay icons?

Windows XP ships with a number of icon overlays.

* A small arrow. Everybody knows this one: It's the shortcut overlay.
* A hand, palm up. This is the "sharing" overlay. A folder with this
overlay is the root of a file share.
* A downward-pointing blue arrow. This is the "to be written to CD"
overlay.
* A pair of blue swirling arrows. This sometimes baffles people. This
means that the item is available offline. (You have to enable offline
folders to get this.)
* A black clock. This really baffles people. This means that the file
has been archived to tape and will take a very long time to access.

The black clock is particularly baffling because you sometimes see it 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.

I hope this helps someone in the future. Thanks for trying

William
===



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