Green check marks on desktop icons

Anonymous
2009-11-10T23:14:51+00:00

Suddenly all my desktop icons have green check marks on them.  What does it mean?  How do I fix them?

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Anonymous
2011-02-14T02:55:52+00:00

Suddenly all my desktop icons have green check marks on them.  What does it mean?  How do I fix them?

Hi,

Do you use norton 360? Norton -> Settings -> Backup Settings -> Backup Status Overlays -> OFF -> Apply.  After you run your next backup (you can do it manually) the check marks will disappear.

Hope this helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-05-27T03:49:40+00:00

    Hi Richard

    It is what you think, the green check mark indicates the item is currently in sync with your cloud storage.

    If you open your Google Drive folder in Explorer, all of those items will likely show a check mark as well. Since your Desktop really is just another folder, it's not surprising the items get check marks; just annoying.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-26T21:09:20+00:00

    It;s fixed now.  Thank you!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-05-25T03:11:35+00:00

    Thank you Glenn! 

    I do have Google Drive as well as Backup and Sync.  However, I could not find anything in the File Explorer or Google Drive giving me the option to continuously back up to Google Drive.

    When I turn on the computer the desktop icons often have the white square with the arrow in it in the lower left corner.  That is later replaced by the green check marks.  Do the green check marks simply mean that the files in those apps were backed up or do they mean something else? 

    Richard

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-05-24T07:55:30+00:00

    For me the Desktop Backup setting in the new Backup and Sync from Google seems to have been the cause.

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