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magician62:
OK first we are working Win 7 (64) and only applicable to List or Details View

Either automatically (unlikely), or by processing a folder and its immediate subfolders (more Likely)

Change the colour of a folder if empty, including folders where thumbs.db is the only file that exists exists

Purpose: I have a folder containing a number of working folders, that I process the contents of. This is to give a quick visual indication of which folders remain to be worked on.

Note, I have a util to remove empty folder, but in this case I do not want to remove them as they will slowly be topped up again, and processed as and when.

TIA

skwire:
There is one caveat and that is the folder icon is just that, an icon.  Changing it's colour will mean choosing another icon to use that may or may not match the icon style you're using.  Does that make sense?  If so, find a free icon that you would like to use (or make one).

http://www.iconfinder.com/
http://www.iconarchive.com/

An alternate icon solution would be to extract the default folder icon from the shell32.dll file and recolour it.  However, I'm uncertain of any potential copyright ramifications of doing that.

magician62:
The way I was thinking of it would be the user assigns an icon path/filename that is then used. This then permits customization per user. With the in-use folder reverting to the standard Icon.  Alternatively if a location for the icon and name is predefined, it would be quite easy for the user to drop the icon they want to use in that location

I have in the past used Rainbow Folders from http://www.english.aionel.net/ and Folderico from Shedko to manually assign a replacement icon

skwire:
The way I was thinking of it would be the user assigns an icon path/filename that is then used.-magician62 (October 25, 2011, 04:06 PM)
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This will be no problem.  Some other thoughts:


* To verify, you only want one level of folder recursion below the specified root folder, correct?
* How about an edit field where you can specify a list of "allowed files" within a folder and still consider it empty?  You could add your "Thumbs.db" there...
* What if a one-level-down folder contains a folder or folders.  How would you like that handled?

skwire:
Give this a try:  MT Icon

IDEA: Change folder icon colour when folder empty

To see the folder icons change, and depending on your file manager, you may or may not have to refresh the directory after running this tool.  Let me know how it goes.  Thanks.

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