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When opening a disk I see some files marked with a red cross, some without. Does the red cross means that the file is unrecoverable?

April 26, 2017disk file files marked means opening red cross Unrecoverable

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When opening a disk I see some files marked with a red cross, some without. Does the red cross means that the file is unrecoverable?

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A Red cross on the icon means that the file has been intentionally deleted. Files without the red cross are files that exist or existed on the disk. They may be lost from the system due to file structure corruption (especially when found on Recognized partitions.