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From: Francois on 29 Mar 2010 08:45
David Empson wrote:
> Francois <danzas(a)9online.fr> wrote:
>
>> I'm doing a lot of video with iMovie with a Mac Pro(OSX 10.6.2) , lots
>> of files being transferred from one HD to the other in reason of their
>> size, Well, the usual stuff. Suddenly I realise that on all disks
>> windows, appears ,on the right of the "view" icons a dimmed question
>> mark. When I click on it; it displays the name of a file ("bud
>> 01-07-09", without extension) , and a warning window saying "this item
>> is missing"
>
> I gather you are referring to the toolbar at the top of each Finder
> window.
>
> What probably happened is that at some point you accidentally dragged a
> file into the toolbar area (which adds its icon into the toolbar, so it
> can be quickly accessed from any open Finder window), and subsequently
> deleted the original file. Finder continues to show the icon as a
> question mark in this case.
>
> You can remove that icon from the toolbar by holding down the Command
> key and dragging it off the toolbar.
>
Thanks a lot, David, you gave me the right solution which got me rid of
that "ghost" question mark. This "icon" was no harm in itself but
annoying, first because it showed itself everywhere on my disks
toolbars, and secondly because I didn't understand what was going on (a
thing which happens to me frequently but which I hate all the more !)
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