Customized Folder Icons to work

[CookieMonster]

You can assign customized icons to folders as the documentation states;

Custom icons can also be assigned to folders, drives, servers, and shares. For this to work the patterns must end with a backslash.

I thought that meant the following;

<folder>>Desktop\icon_file_bigger.ico\ < backslash at the end, didn't work. Then I tried adding <drive>:\ before the path, didn't work either. How do you get customized icons to work in XYplorer ?

[binocular222]

Here are mine:
"All Folder" *\>FXT_Folder_Icons_3\Folder_c_C_Default.ico
D:\Music\ /r>Music.ico
"Folders in USB" *[F-U]:\*\ /d>FXT_Folder_Icons_3\Folder_C_Green.ico

[CookieMonster]

Can you not customize specific folders in XYplorer with custom icons ? I create a custom file type with a name, find the icon and the folder icon doesn't change ?

[RalphM]

Make sure you got your settings right in Configuration:
Untick the highlighted one!

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[CookieMonster]

I have that setting disabled. Here is a screen shot of my file association window.

[xman]

You also need to enable "Enable custom file icons" option in the above configuration screenshot. Took me quite a while to figure this out back then.

[CookieMonster]

I have that option enabled as well, it still isn't working.

[xman]

OK, another idea. In your screenshot, the syntax is wrong - the left part with file extension(s) is missing. Here is how it should look like:

[CookieMonster]

OK, another idea. In your screenshot, the syntax is wrong - the left part with file extension(s) is missing. Here is how it should look like:

Isn't that for file associations, not individual folders ?

[xman]

Yes, my screenshot shows how to do it for files, but the point was that the icon preview is missing in your screenshot, so the syntax (or something else - like the icon file itself) is wrong.

Here is how you can set it up for a folder:

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C:\blablabla\hahaha\>myicon.ico

Also note that the path must end with a backslash.

[CookieMonster]

Manual states

code\>Green.ico [assign red.ico to all folders named "code"]

In my case I want to assign a custom icon to all folders with the name "acme" for example;

C:\2\acme>acme-icon.ico

It isn't working ?

[xman]

Your syntax is incorrect. It points only to one specific instance of acme directory and, more importantly, is missing the backslash at the end. This should be the right syntax:

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acme\>acme-icon.ico

... and make sure, that acme-icon.ico is in <xyicons> directory and not elsewhere. The icon should appear next to your entry, like in my screenshot in one of my previous posts.

[CookieMonster]

Thank you, it works

[CookieMonster]

Loading icons is slow, I have cached enabled, and it's still slow, wow.

[Nighted]

Loading icons is slow, I have cached enabled, and it's still slow, wow.

It's instant. Even on my netbook.

The only time it there was lag was in the first beta with customizable icons and that was fixed up right away.

Are you using the latest version?