Dark blue bar on folder icons in Finder?

This is probably just a trivia question, but what's the significance of the dark blue bars on some folder icons in Finder? I just copied some folders into my MySQL database and noticed that almost evey folder I copied has a dark blue bar across it.

Sorry for the late response.
I just checked a folder that was full of such icons, but they all look normal now. But then I checked another folder and found an icon with something I forgot to mention - a little X on top. Here's a screen shot...
http://www.geobop.com/weird-icon.png
There are also icons that are faded. The appear to represent folders that weren't finished copying.

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