Choose any image within folder as custom thumbnail image?

[Megalith]

Windows Explorer allows you to do this through Properties > Customize > Folder pictures. Is there a way to get this functionality in XYplorer?

[Stef123]

Christen it "folder", the chosen one. Folder.jpg or folder.png

[Megalith]

Thanks, I was aware of that. I was hoping that there would be a way to do so without having to rename an existing image file.

[admin]

Windows Explorer allows you to do this through Properties > Customize > Folder pictures. Is there a way to get this functionality in XYplorer?

This is done via desktop.ini. I could add awareness of this. Later.

[admin]

Happens in next beta.

PS: This is how desktop.ini looks in Win8.1. The custom folder thumbnail is defined at key "Logo" in section "ViewState":

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[ViewState]
Mode=
Vid=
FolderType=Generic
Logo=E:\Test\thumbs\icons as thumbs\PNG\Icon_55.ico

Unlikely that it is the same in Win7, Vista, XP. Do you have any information for me?

[PeterH]

Happens in next beta.

PS: This is how desktop.ini looks in Win8.1. The custom folder thumbnail is defined at key "Logo" in section "ViewState":

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[ViewState]
Mode=
Vid=
FolderType=Generic
Logo=E:\Test\thumbs\icons as thumbs\PNG\Icon_55.ico

Unlikely that it is the same in Win7, Vista, XP. Do you have any information for me?

Win7 X64: just for test a desktop.ini

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[ViewState]
Mode=
Vid=
FolderType=Pictures
Logo=D:\Multimedia\Fotos Test\OSM X25 Wichlinghausen\DSC_4030.JPG

[klownboy]

Don, so in the next beta, if XY finds the desktop.ini file in a image folder and it has the Logo=assigned to an image, XY will use that as the folder thumbnail over the "folder.jpg" residing in the folder (i.e., the desktop.ini will take precedence over the folder.jpg)?

[admin]

Don, so in the next beta, if XY finds the desktop.ini file in a image folder and it has the Logo=assigned to an image, XY will use that as the folder thumbnail over the "folder.jpg" residing in the folder (i.e., the desktop.ini will take precedence over the folder.jpg)?

Yes.

[bdeshi]

Any chance of this being optional?

[admin]

Simply don't define logo.

[bdeshi]

Within XY.

[admin]

Why would you define a logo and then don't use it?

[bdeshi]

Well, I might like assigned CFI's better.
So you might just give CFIs higher priority.

[admin]

Aren't we talking about thumbnails here, not icons? If you don't want folder thumbnails turn them off.

[bdeshi]