~ means what

[Tim69]

What does this symbol before a document icon mean ~ ?

 

[Guest]

It's a document you are working on/have open.

 

[Major7up]

Yes, it is a temporary file used by some program running to store data while it is running. This can be, as fihart said, as result of working on a document such as a word document but not necessarily so.

 

[seacliff]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~

means alot of things

 

[Pigbearman]

www.google.com