Network drive Explorer icons

[lerner]

When I map a network drive it shows up in Explorer with an icon that
looks like a drive connected to a pipe beneath it. Usually the bit
connecting the drive and the pipe is yellow. This doesn't change even if
the drive becomes inaccessible, although that may be because I try not
to refresh or do anything until the drive becomes available again.

But recently when a drive went offline the icon changed to one where the
connection from the drive to the pipe was red. This did not change after
the drive came online again. I refreshed Explorer but it still stayed
red. I was able to access the drive like usual but the icon stayed red
the whole time. The only way I could get it back to yellow was to
disconnect it then map it again, at which point it came back in its
normal yellow.

I would expect green to mean the disk is online and everything is fine,
yellow means online but there is a problem, and red means offline. But I
have never seen a green icon and I have never had any problems even
though my icons are yellow. This together with my description of the
behaviour above indicate the icon color must mean something else. I have
searched for hours trying to find even the simplest explanation of what
the icon colors mean but have gotten nowhere. Can anyone help?

Doug

 

[Bob I]

Red "x" means was disconnected, "yellow dot" is normal connection. Red
after reconnect is merely a failure to "change icons". I wouldn't get
too excited about it.