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Hi there, Is it expected behaviour for folder shortcut (.lnk) thumbnails to have a black background? And, if so, is there any way to change it? Cheers.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Cheers.

it's not normal behaviour, but for pity i can't say why is it so. probably it's something about your settings(system's), still try out fresh XY to be sure.

Look at these two values in the config file:
Line 773: FolderThumbs=1
Line 774: FolderThumbsShell=1

First setting ofcourse controls the whole folder thumb thing, so that should remain on 1.
If you set the second one to 0 then XY will not show folder thumbs fetched from shell (XY will show only its own thumbs). Remember to refresh thumbs cache after this.

Not sure if the color is tweakable.

For info only: On my Windows 7 x64 systems, with FolderThumbs=1 and FolderThumbsShell=1, the background for "folder" thumbs is black. When I change my settings to FolderThumbs=1 and FolderThumbsShell=0, my folder thumbs are a light yellow/tan color. I haven't had any success changing this color or lightening it. A little strange though, when displaying folders that contain pictures, the color band (or stripe) at the top of the picture is lighter shade than the color band at the bottom. Obviously the size of the band on the top and bottom of the folder thumbnail is dependent on the size or aspect ratio of the "first" picture within the subject folder. Visually it would actually be nicer if the folder thumbs didn't display in the full frame as they do, so you don't see the colored bands or the band color could be changed to the window background color as it is for the picture thumbnails themselves (i.e., the picture thumbnails show in their aspect ratio and the remainder of the frame is the background color). The frame for "folder" thumbnails appears to be closest to a 4:3 aspect ratio since a 4:3 jpg picture (1600x1200) seems to display best (very little band) at nearly full frame. If there are no pictures in the folder, the folder's thumbnail will have a black background (i.e., if the folder being displayed is a folder that contains only other folders and no pictures or PDFs, etc.). Of course you can solve that by putting just one pic under the folder along with the folders themselves.

I can reproduce it. Interesting. I hope I can fix it. Difficult...

admin wrote:I can reproduce it. Interesting. I hope I can fix it. Difficult...

Tried hard but failed.

UPDATE: I have just found that in the program XnView the same behaviour exists for folder shortcut thumbnails. In FreeCommander all folder thumbnail backgrounds (real folders and shortcuts) are black but this has been fixed in FreeCommander XE for all folder thumbnails (real folders and shortcuts). So this obviously isn't a problem within XYplorer itself.