Hi there,

one of my users has something really strange. He's got a folder which shows a spinning something as overlay to the normal folder icon and asked me what that is. Frankly, I couldn't tell him as obvious information sources didn't show anything unusual.

Here's some information about the folder:
- it's on a cifs-mounted samba share
- it's not in the root of that share but somewhere in the directory hierarchy
- it's the only folder we're aware of that shows this strange thing
- it doesn't conain hidden files
- folder properties show the normal icon, normal permissions, everything normal
- the overlay is persistent (or at least seems to be)

This is a screenshot. The folder in question is Draft (obviously) and that thingy on top of the folder icon is rotating


Can anyone tell me what that is?

Thanks

http://hanschen.org/2010/10/04/nice-subtle-effect/

ah, I see. Is there a way to find out what kind of opperation is supposedly happening? I mean, in this case, the folder's been in this state for days and still is and there's no ongoing opperation we'd be aware of.

It likely means that some form of operation in the past on this folder hasn't properly cleaned up after itself. If you logout and back in again, making sure all processes have exited cleanly in between, then it should clear itself up.