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Sharif Garmon
How can I change my Dropbox folder icons and use my own icons? Until recently, I could change icons to my own icon picture, which made working quicker. I use Mac OS Mojave on a MacBook Pro, and use Dropbox from my Mac OS desktop finder window. As of the second week of October, all my icons reverted to generic folder icons and I am not able to change them. Is there a new method, or is there a new Dropbox download that I need? How can I again change my folder icons? (10/24/19)
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Hi,@TedC I'm having the same problem, so I tried your suggestion and installed the software update/ beta version. All my custom icons are still missing... which is a pretty huge pain in the butt because we're talking about hundreds of files that I spent a lot of time organizing with custom icons. Any other ideas of something I could try? Also, suddenly this dialogue box has come up on my last couple of re-starts: Dropbox needs to change permissions for the FolderL/Users/[myname]/Dropbox??? I enter the password as prompted, but just not sure why it's suddenly happening and if it has anything to do with my icon issue.
Hey @TedC I'm having a similar issue with my business dropbox account regarding being able to change the folder icons. I can change them on my personal account. I'm the Admin of my business account so I'm not sure why I can't. Can you please help? Thank you!
Try also to repair the installation, if you upgraded from 1.6.8 or 1.6.9. Just re-launch the TortoisSVN installer and choose "Repair". There are known problems with overlay icons and TortoiseSVN upgrades (see this blog post).
Make sure you have installed the x64 version of TortoiseSVN if you're using XP or Vista 64-bit. Since the explorer on those OS versions is a 64-bit application, it can not load the 32-bit version of TortoiseSVN.
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In the "Get Info" popup, when I try to paste the new png or jpeg image onto the old folder icon it only shows the DEFAULT file type icon for png and jpeg. The actual image does not appear. I've tried to repeat the process on folders that I have previously changed successfully only to have them now show the default icon.
Yes, that was exactly the problem. I am shocked that I had to copy it that EXACT manner. I have never copied anything that way before. In fact the instructions only mention this way as an option, not as the ONLY way that will work.
It may be this bug. Try changing the drive name. I did everything 'right' and it still would not let me change the icon. I changed the name of the drive and it unlocked whatever the impediment was. You can change the name back, no problem.
This solution is not working for me. I have a 200 GB card in my MacBook Pro. I changed the icon successfully at first, then decided to change my use for it & need a different icon. No matter how I copy/paste it only either goes to the original default or to the icon I'd put there early on. In fact, it'll actually show the old icon at top of the info window while showing the one I just TRIED to paste up at the bottom!
In fact, I'm noticing that the icon at top of the Get Info window is suddenly not showing up in ANY files except for folders & drives. This is a new issue perhaps with a recent software update? Happened before today's update, though. And not fixed with today's update.
I'm running Xfce 4.10 on Debian Jessie. I have my desktop set up pretty much the way I want it. One thing I cant figure out, is how to change the icon image for say a desktop directory or document from the default icon. I'm not talking about changing an icon set to make it look better, I want to right click the icon, select an image of my liking and use that as in Mate. I can do this with any icon in the Xfce panels, but not on the desktop.
Wouldn't it be fairly simple, and not break current behavior, if Thunar and the XFCE Desktop simply looked for a file in folders called .xfce-custom-folder-icon that contained the name of the icon you want displayed for that folder?
This would travel with portable devices like usb sticks or dvd-ram, etc. and would just be ignored by OS's / distros that didn't use it or know what to do with it. If the icon is missing, just use the default.
xfdesktop does support custom folders as of version 4.11.0. Simply put a jpg file in the same folder with the name either folder.jpg, cover.jpg, albumart.jpg, or fanart.jpg and it will become the folder icon on the desktop (commit).
I have a folder with all my pictures in it, labeled pictures. It has a bunch of folders in it labeled by date. I also have a few pics that got put into that folder. It used to show thumbnails of all the folders, grouped together, and then thumbnails of the pics too. I have lost the thumbnails of the folders, which were very useful to help tell what was in the folders without having to open them. How do I get the thumbnails of the folders to show like they used to??? All I see now are the few photo thumbnails, but not the folder thunbnails.
Here's a screen shot of that. Thought I used to see folders like these in DPP, maybe I am mistaken, and it was in windows that I saw it. Regardless case closed, I can go straight to PC to see what I want. Thanks and pardon my confusion.
Any way to embed (or permanently change) folder icons (or folder thumbnail images) on file folders on an external hard drive so that the picture will be shown on all computers that access the drive and not just the computer that made the icon change? i.e., I change the folder icons on my computer, then want them to stay with the folders on the drive and not in the root sys 32 batch defaults folder icon in Windows.
I have a few folders on an external drive that I want to save folder icons for. By using Paint save as .ico bmp image, then embed these onto the drive and assign these icons to the folders and have whoever accesses these files be able to see the embedded folder pictures.
I tried all the approaches listed. It works great on the computer that I default with. When I plug the external hard drive into my wife's computer, everything is defaulted to her Vista defaults (or Windows icons and images).
And while cstomizing a folder via Properties also helps. However I noticed a problem when using Desktop.ini. It references the absolute path to the folder icon/logo.... and the drive letter for the external hard drive may not be the same when viewed from other computers.
I've tried a few different methods, and this came up in search as I'm trying to remember how, so despite how old it is, I'd like to add what seems the most consistently reliable and generalized that I've found:
With Windows 10 and 11 machines that I've tried this on, for some reason, it still has the generic folder icon in explorer after making this change. To fix that I have to go to the folder properties, and on the "Customize" tab, where it shows my folder.ico even though it isn't actually used in the Explorer view. I choose "Change Icon", hit "Restore Defaults," and then Cancel (or push Esc) so that it doesn't actually change back to default and overwrite that desktop.ini. After that it actually uses the icon which it already should have been using.
But that's only for the same machine, since it had already loaded a view with the default folder icon; when the drive is on a new computer they should all show the correct icon right off the bat when it first scans the folder.
I will be a bit more precise. I have a few folders on an external drive that I want to save folder icons for. By using paint save as .ico bmp image. then embed these onto the drive and assign these icons to the folders and have all that access these files to see the embedded folder pics.
How do I assign custom icons to folders, as well as the default folders Desktop, Downloads, Music, etc.? I know that one way is to assign the properties of folders, but I want to assign icons in the same way that are assigned the default folders, so the custom icons will also appear in the Nautilus bookmarks. I've also seen this question >> custom icon in "Places" menu
Note that the directory contains lots of other data (emblems and more). As far as I know they are in binary format so I wasn't really able to pinpoint what's really needed in a backup. Still file path of the icons shuld remain exactly the same between backup and restore for this to work
Emblems were removed from Nautilus in version 3.0. There is a workaround consisting in using python-nautilus and a project -Emblems-Menu-Extension that adds the Emblems option to the right-click menu.
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