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What doeas the question mark in a file icon means in Intellij?

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I didn't found anything in the official documentation.

I am asking this because these two files have the .pdf extention, maybe the IDE can't recognize them

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Nad G Avatar asked Nov 24 '17 11:11

Nad G


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This icon denotes the "Unknown" to IDE file type. To be able to open such file from IDE by the external application, please add the extension pattern here: File Types

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Andrey Avatar answered Sep 30 '22 18:09

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