Need Help - How to Copy Customized File & Folder Icons from Old to New Profile? ...
Posted: 01 Oct 2022 17:37
Hi All - I recently had a corrupted xyplorer.ini in my XY installation folder (for the second time, the first time was back in 2013 - here is a link to my original post back then: (TinyURL: https://tinyl.io/75Jj, for reference).
Since this firs incident, I have been meticulous in creating xyplorer.ini backups after every time I make a user customization of any type by afterwards going into "File/Settings Special/Save Copy of Configuration As/", then prefixing my filename with the current date and saving to a custom folder of xyplorer.ini backups.
This time when the xyplorer.ini file corruption occurred, XYplorer was refusing to open, and I typed into Google the XYplorer error message (sorry, I do not remember exactly what it was) and at the top of the solutions was my post from user forum post from 2013, at which point I knew the xyplorer.ini had become corrupted again, and this time I just went into an older xyplorer.ini backup in my xyplorer.ini changes/backups folder and restored it from an older backup (unfortunately, I choose a backup at a prior date that was too old, but more about that later).
Unfortunately, when I posted about my initial .ini file corruption issue back in 2013, the first responder told me what had happened, and then I followed his directions and XYplorer was functional again. I didn't think to check back at the post, because if I had I would have seen additional helpful suggestions to the problem that might have served me better with this most recent xyplorer.ini file corruption.
Specifically, after this second corruption, where I then restored an older xyplorer.ini file from backup, since I chose to go back farther in time, I lost many of my user customizations. And unlink when the corruption occurred in 2013, this time I had a lot of user customizations, not only in the tools/configuration settings, but also many user customized file and folder icons (which I'm not sure was even an option back in 2013).
For the tools/configuration settings, I was able to change most of them from memory (but probably forgot a few); however my current problem is all of the many user customized file and folder icons, which I would never be able to "reprogram" from memory, as there were so many, and I am really missing them.
Where are the customized file and folder icons settings stored? If it is in an xyplorer.ini file, then at least I have a whole folder full of backups after every program customization, and could hopefully find the last backup where a customized file and folder icon was saved (but the xyplorer.ini in file didn't wasn't "corrupted" and causing XYplorer not to function). Could I then copy code from the previous xyplorer.ini file and folder user customizations into the current, functioning xyplorer.ini file and then have my user customized file and folder icons back again? Or is there perhaps another way to get them back that I am not aware of that would be a better option?
Please help, as I am in "unchartered territory" here, and do not know the best (or even possible) way to fix this situation.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated, and this time I promise not to just check back once and use the first solution offered, without waiting to see if there are more solutions posted and weighing my options.
Thanks so much,
-Cfguy
Since this firs incident, I have been meticulous in creating xyplorer.ini backups after every time I make a user customization of any type by afterwards going into "File/Settings Special/Save Copy of Configuration As/", then prefixing my filename with the current date and saving to a custom folder of xyplorer.ini backups.
This time when the xyplorer.ini file corruption occurred, XYplorer was refusing to open, and I typed into Google the XYplorer error message (sorry, I do not remember exactly what it was) and at the top of the solutions was my post from user forum post from 2013, at which point I knew the xyplorer.ini had become corrupted again, and this time I just went into an older xyplorer.ini backup in my xyplorer.ini changes/backups folder and restored it from an older backup (unfortunately, I choose a backup at a prior date that was too old, but more about that later).
Unfortunately, when I posted about my initial .ini file corruption issue back in 2013, the first responder told me what had happened, and then I followed his directions and XYplorer was functional again. I didn't think to check back at the post, because if I had I would have seen additional helpful suggestions to the problem that might have served me better with this most recent xyplorer.ini file corruption.
Specifically, after this second corruption, where I then restored an older xyplorer.ini file from backup, since I chose to go back farther in time, I lost many of my user customizations. And unlink when the corruption occurred in 2013, this time I had a lot of user customizations, not only in the tools/configuration settings, but also many user customized file and folder icons (which I'm not sure was even an option back in 2013).
For the tools/configuration settings, I was able to change most of them from memory (but probably forgot a few); however my current problem is all of the many user customized file and folder icons, which I would never be able to "reprogram" from memory, as there were so many, and I am really missing them.
Where are the customized file and folder icons settings stored? If it is in an xyplorer.ini file, then at least I have a whole folder full of backups after every program customization, and could hopefully find the last backup where a customized file and folder icon was saved (but the xyplorer.ini in file didn't wasn't "corrupted" and causing XYplorer not to function). Could I then copy code from the previous xyplorer.ini file and folder user customizations into the current, functioning xyplorer.ini file and then have my user customized file and folder icons back again? Or is there perhaps another way to get them back that I am not aware of that would be a better option?
Please help, as I am in "unchartered territory" here, and do not know the best (or even possible) way to fix this situation.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated, and this time I promise not to just check back once and use the first solution offered, without waiting to see if there are more solutions posted and weighing my options.
Thanks so much,
-Cfguy