What do the grey arrows on nautilus mean for folders?

[CrazedNerd]

Gray arrows and stop signs on folders

What are those gray arrows and stop signs on folders? I assume the latter is linked to protected, but what about arrows?

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Two people tried to answer this in the comments of the question in the link, but this is not conclusive. When executing "ls -F", those folders are teal with @ symbols fallowing them.

If they are just symbolic links, then what are they linked to?

 

[dos2unix]

If they are just symbolic links, then what are they linked to?

They are.
I don't know of an easy way to tell using the GUI.

But in the CLI ls -l will show you.

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Nov 24 23:36 system-release -> fedora-release
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 29 Nov 24 23:36 system-release-cpe -> ../usr/lib/system-release-cpe

Typically they start with an "l" (lowercase L). Then they have an "arrow" -> that points to what they are linked to.