Icons on External HDD not showing


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    Windows 7 x64
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    Icons on External HDD not showing


    So I like the idea of being able to using custom icons for folders (album covers as the folder) but when I plug in my external HDD into a friends PC the icons don't show up yet they work fine on my PC. Does anyone know how to fix this?
    Last edited by pikix; 10 Jul 2012 at 11:10.
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  2. Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
       #2

    Hi, welcome to SevenForums.

    Try this: Thumbnail Cache - Clear and Reset
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  3. Posts : 12,120
    Win 7 Pro x64 / Win 10 Pro
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    Welcome to the Seven Forums
    Where do you keep your custom icons at? If they are on your computer they will not show up on someone else's computer, they would have to be stored in the external hard drive for that to work.
    Jerry
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    Windows 7 x64
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    Dinesh said:
    Hi, welcome to SevenForums.

    Try this: Thumbnail Cache - Clear and Reset
    Thanks! But that doesn't really help.

    Bongo said:
    Welcome to the Seven Forums
    Where do you keep your custom icons at? If they are on your computer they will not show up on someone else's computer, they would have to be stored in the external hard drive for that to work.
    Jerry
    They're in each folder for each album.
    -----------------
    Is it because icon settings are stored on the C:/ drive somewhere and that persons computer I'm using doesn't have that same ThumbCache.db as me? What if I went into their %appdata% folder and deleted the IconCache.db, perhaps that would work?
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  5. Arc
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       #5

    pikix said:

    Bongo said:
    Welcome to the Seven Forums
    Where do you keep your custom icons at? If they are on your computer they will not show up on someone else's computer, they would have to be stored in the external hard drive for that to work.
    Jerry
    They're in each folder for each album.
    -----------------
    Is it because icon settings are stored on the C:/ drive somewhere? So that when I plug my external HDD into another computer the icons don't show?
    If you are talking about the folder thumbnail preview (Folder.jpg), then when in your friends computer, you may need to a quick rebuild of icon cache to generate the previews rightly. Sometimes changing the icon view also does the trick .

    Icon Cache - Rebuild
    Icons on External HDD not showing-2012-07-10_202330.jpg
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  6. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Arc said:
    pikix said:

    They're in each folder for each album.
    -----------------
    Is it because icon settings are stored on the C:/ drive somewhere? So that when I plug my external HDD into another computer the icons don't show?
    If you are talking about the folder thumbnail preview (Folder.jpg), then when in your friends computer, you may need to a quick rebuild of icon cache to generate the previews rightly. Sometimes changing the icon view also does the trick .

    Icon Cache - Rebuild
    Icons on External HDD not showing-2012-07-10_202330.jpg
    Thanks for the help but no luck so far. I took the album art cover (a .jpeg file) and converted it into an icon (a .ico file). These icons dont show but the folder does show the .jpg on the thumbnail (on my computer and my friends)
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  7. Arc
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    Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 64-bit
       #7

    .ico files if customized in one computer will not be shown in another one.
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