Re: Folder images

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 02:53 +0200, Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
> Quick question: where does Nautilus record the images used for custom
> folder icons?
> 
> (Right-click on a folder, click on the folder's image, choose any
> image. It will be used as the folder's icon.)
> 
> I have regularly-named images to use as thumbnail for a certain part
> of the filesystem (all album folders have a "cover.png", 256x256 image
> in them) and I'd like to write a script to set them as folder icons
> automatically (10k+ folders).
> 
> I looked at both ~/.thumbnails/* (where file thumbnails are stored)
> and ~/.nautilus/* (not sure what it does) and it seems they're not it.
> (Actually, I deleted everything there, and the one manually-set icon
> is still displayed.)

Strange. They are stored in ~/.nautilus/metafiles. Maybe you didn't
restart nautilus after removing them.

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