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Folders & Shortcuts Losing Custom Icons On Removable Flash Drive
Hello once more,
I've recently dedicated one of my USB flash drives to use as a drive with all the basic, necessary programs (N++, Unlocker, etc.) which I install on my computers after a fresh OS installation. So, to speed up the process of doing so, instead of having to download all the programs, I keep them on my USB flash drive.
I'm a rather organized person, and here's what my problemes are, using an example.
There's a removable flash drive with letter F:
On it, there is a folder called "Recuva".
Inside that folder, there is the installer, an icon, desktop.ini file and a shortcut (.url) to recuva's download page.
My initial issue was that when I changed the icon for the folder "Recuva", and plugged the drive in on another computer, the icon wasn't there. It's desktop.ini that causes it to not show, because it provides full path to the icon, with the drive letter that can be different on other computers. I have managed to overcome that issue by using "IconResource=\Recuva\recuva.ico" instead of "IconResource=F:\Recuva\recuva.ico" but it's a very time consuming process to have to change it manually for 60 folders. Is there any other solution to this?
I'm also having the same issue with my shortcuts (.url) files. Because of the same reason. I tried opening them with notepad (which surprisingly worked) but removing the drive letter only caused them to show a blank or default icon rather than the custom one.
I know it doesn't have any impact on usability. I can still install programs and open shortcuts from that flash drive, yet I'd like it to look neat.
Any help for this eye-candy-addict will be appreciated