AVRDUDE orange message when uploading sketch

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Hi, quite new to Arduino,
I have a Nano & thus far have worked through to Paul McWhorter's lesson 11, with only a few minor hiccups.

My question is, that recently I am getting an orange banner message across the bottom area of the screen at the completion of uploading a sketch.
I have not been aware of it happening until now.

The message reads in effect:
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate :57600
avrdude : writing flash (2684 bytes);
writing I ########################## I 100%
avrdude done Thank you

The sketch then works fine, but the rate at which the message compiles is almost too fast to read, so I apologize in advance for any errors I've written & also for not being to find any relevant info in this forum, but I am on a very slow internet connection, with a meager download limit.

I read the first 30 pages in this forum, but nothing appears appropriate.

Is this message normal, or do I have a slight problem.

Thanks in advance. (Just in case I need glasses :confused: )

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That's just the output from AVRDUDE. The Arduino IDE colors everything written to stdout white and everything written to stderr orange. I have no clue why the author of AVRDUDE decided to write non-error output to stdout. So in this case orange text doesn't indicate a problem.

So why are you getting this orange text when you didn't before? The reason is you must have forgotten that you checked the box next to File > Preferences > Show verbose output during: > upload. I find it very useful to have some indication of the progress of the upload and so I always have that setting turned on. It's also very useful if you ever need to troubleshoot an upload error.

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DOH !!!

That's the answer, I remember I checked both boxes whilst trying to identify a problem I had.

Many thanks for your assistance Pert.