Is it possible when syncing a folder on my desktop with one on my laptop to change the folder icon on one folder and have it automatically change the other folder’s icon to the same one assuming the same icon exists on both systems? It would be helpful to be able to look at a folder on either computer and see at a glance it is currently synced without having to open the sync app and look at the list of synced folders. Thank you.
Syncthing doesn’t support that. The only way I can think of to do this would be a script that watches the appropriate events in Syncthing at intervals, changes a filesystem folder icon when a Syncthing Folder is Up to Date, and then most likely has to refresh the desktop. I expect I would find it jarring to have my desktop refreshed on the regular like that.
Thank you for the info. It’s too bad that there isn’t a way to somehow automatically mark a folder to show it is being synced with another folder. Even a dot in the folder would be helpful.
There are other options. Many people use SyncTrayzor, for example, which can give you Syncthing’s status in the Windows System Tray.
I understand the question was about something else. If you change the icon on one side, using the file manager, then that icon change should be reflected on the synchronized folder?
Whether that can work depends on the operating system. Under Mac OS, the Icons are stored in a way that Syncthing cannot sync AFAIK. In Windows, if you sync the desktop.ini file within the folder, it should work fine. But I don’t know whether Windows refreshes the icon by itself after the file changes. In Linux, I’m not sure where the icons (emblems) are stored, which also probably depends on which specific desktop environment you use.
Thank you for the info. I will give that a try.
Are you saying that I woud need to make a copy of the desktop ini file in each folder that I wanted an alternate folder icon in?
I unhid operating files which exposed the ini file. I changed the folder icon on one computer to one that I wanted. It automatically made the folder on the other computer match, which is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your thoughts about the ini file. Works perfectly!
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