What does the blue arrow on a folder mean?

A folder that should have been accessible went from a red dot with the horizontal white bar to a white dot with a blue down arrow. Neither should have been on this folder user/username/Documents


I is not accessible. Tried fixing permissions and eliminated the plists. Nothing seems to work.

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), Server

Posted on Apr 8, 2016 6:53 AM

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Apr 8, 2016 12:35 PM in response to carlfrompoway

Hi,


I get that the item may have been tagged with the red colour (and whatever you might have changed that title to)

User uploaded file


But then again /Users/NOTmy Account/Documents show me this

User uploaded file


Which would lead me to here (Drop Box folder)

User uploaded file


Exactly what were you trying to do and where ?

Was it you User's Account ? (the one with the Little house icon)


Column view

User uploaded file

i.e. I am not in my own folder but looking in someone else's

I cannot access the Documents but I can access their Drop Box in their Public folder.





User uploaded file

8:35 pm Friday; April 8, 2016


 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (El Capitan)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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