How to preserve custom Hard Drive images when syncing

Posts: 3 · gleemaker 27 Jan 2022, 12:11

I've just signed up to the forum so forgive me if this has already been discussed, but I am trying to work out how to preserve custom Hard Drive icons when syncing. I worked out how to do it with folders by using */Icon? in the exclude filters, but this doesn't cover custom hard drive icons. I am using two colours to delineate between the master and backup drives but when I sync they change - before sync

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and after sync (mirror)

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thank you in advance!

Posts: 4867 · xCSxXenon 27 Jan 2022, 20:08

OS?
Are you syncing Opera1 to Opera2?
If so, is the "autorun.ini" and icon file excluded from the sync?

Posts: 3 · gleemaker 27 Jan 2022, 20:35

hi xCSxXenon - thanks for your reply

Mac OS 10.15 Catalina
Yes syncing Opera1 to Opera2 (2 is mirror of 1)
These are the lines in the 'exclude' area of the filter:
/.fseventsd/
/.Spotlight-V100/
/.Trashes/
*/.DS_Store
*/._.*
\ECO OPERA tests\
*/Icon?

I should confess that I really don't quite know what I am doing here! A bit out of my depth....

Posts: 4867 · xCSxXenon 30 Jan 2022, 19:53

I'm not sure where but the icon settings are probably stored in a file somewhere in the root of the drive. This file then gets synced to the target, overwriting it. What if you run a sync to make them completely equal, change the icon on the target drive, then run a compare? That should give you a single file that it wants to sync to the target, and that would contain to icon info, so exclude it.

Posts: 3 · gleemaker 31 Jan 2022, 10:57

Brilliant! That worked a treat. The file is called .VolumeIcon.icns. Not really knowing what I am doing I used */.VolumeIcon.icns? in the filter and it worked both ways - each HD keeps it's custom icon colour. Thanks very much for the help, Graeme

Posts: 4867 · xCSxXenon 31 Jan 2022, 15:55

Great! Usually I would recommend to right-click an item to exclude it, then there is no question on how you need to format it, but it's unlikely that you will run into something unintended with that unique filter. I wonder if Zenju would consider adding that to the default filter like 'autorun.inf' for Windows.

Edit: Nevermind, that is not in the default filter anyway, probably best kept that way.