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What does each Storage Studio menu bar icon state mean?
Short answer: Plain means healthy, a green pulse means a clean-up is running, yellow means Full Disk Access is missing, orange means space is low, red means the drive is disconnected or space is critical, and a minus means paused.
The icon shows the most urgent state at a glance:
- Plain drive — running and healthy.
- Green pulse — a clean-up or cloud-optimisation run is in progress.
- Yellow warning triangle — Full Disk Access isn't granted.
- Orange warning badge — your built-in drive is getting low on space.
- Red ✕ badge — the external drive is disconnected or not verified, or the built-in drive is critically low.
- Minus badge — running, but automatic actions are paused.
- "?" badge — no drive set up yet.
- Stop symbol — installed but not running.
Errors always win over the green pulse, so an important warning never hides behind a running job. Click the icon to see details.