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Why should a junction be treated as filled (they don't have to)?

highend wrote: ↑07 Feb 2025 11:42 Why should a junction be treated as filled (they don't have to)?

I didn't say they "have to".
I just pointed out that it would be a more logical way to present it to the user in the GUI..
Of course junctions don't contain anything, but the folder they link to, might.
And this folder is the reason the user creates the junction in the first place.
They want to see the folder not the underline junction mechanism..

noembryo wrote: ↑06 Feb 2025 19:20 The Symbolic link folders all get the "Empty folder" icon.

Not here.
- How did you create those junctions?
- Can you show a complete screenshot with tree and list to get a better picture of the entire situation?

admin wrote: ↑07 Feb 2025 13:43 - How did you create those junctions?

As I was saying from the beginning, these are "Symbolic links" (even if XYplorer sees them as junctions).
I create them using Link Shell Extension, a very useful explorer extension.

- Can you show a complete screenshot with tree and list to get a better picture of the entire situation?

I'm now back to 26.40.0300, but if you think it will help, I can update and take some screenshots.
What are the things that such a screenshot should contain?

For starters Tabs, Tree, List (proving emptiness of the folder).

On the right side we see two folder that contain stuff.

The symbolic link one, shows that contains 897Mb of data but has the Black/empty icon When I click on it, the tab icon it gets is the default windows folder icon.

So the folder for the user is simultaneously filled and empty, something like the Schrödinger cat..

Well, I can't explain it. Some piece of the puzzle is missing. Again, I'm sure you can find the reason by logical thinking and experimentation.

You mean that you can't replicate it?
If you can't, what part of it is not happening?

I can't replicate anything of this.

admin wrote: ↑07 Feb 2025 18:02 I can't replicate anything of this.

Just send you a PM..

It's likely to do with you using the /f switch in addition to normal.ico|selected.ico icon state definition, try to remove the /f

Bingo, I could reproduce it with the /f switch AND the junctions pointing to network locations AND "Check Network Locations for Content-Based Folder Icons" disabled.

This solves the tab icon problem indeed!
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About the full/empty icon now..

Did you see my last post?

PS: Well, I still cannot replicate the empty icon issue. :\