![]() You can customize an infinite number of icons for an infinite number of files and/folders or even just a single one based on what ever combination you want. No extra files are created like with other programs that place an icon in each directory. The customized icons are stored within the "Icons" folder of the XYPlorer directory while the list of customized file/folder patterns as well as which particular icon to point to are stored within XYplorer. It's set and forget as all file/folder icon associations are applied globally. Meaning that all new files or folders that match your predefined pattern or instruction if you like will automatically be displayed with your chosen icon.Ĭustomized icons are also very very flexible. It's so easy to add, remove, change and fine tune your settings to your liking. To turn the customized icons on or off is simply a matter of pressing the handy toggle button.įurther flexibility comes with the ability to turn on or off individual custom icons with a simple tick box. It is a bit of a learning curve to get the pattern (instruction to select certain files/folders to be associated with a particular icon) just right. But as results are immediately visible, it makes it easy to adjust accordingly to exactly what you want. There are some examples of these patterns included within the "Customize File Icons" UI or settings box to get you started by selecting the "I" button. A more extensive list is available in the XYPlorer help file. If you are open to using alternate shells, then there are a several options: Once you get the hang of it though, the same patterns can be applied to other customizations in XYPlorer for example color filters or Ghost filters.Unfortunately there don’t seem to be any existing shell-extensions for Explorer to control the colors of files and folders. XYplorer supports coloring files (figure 1), but currently only by name. However, they take feature-requests, so you could ask them to implement a size-based color filter. Q-Dir supports file-coloring as well (figure 2), but it too only supports filtering by name (as well as for read-only files). Plus, Q-Dir is free.ĭirectory Opus supports file-coloring (figure 3) according to any property of the file, but it’s not free. Plus, it’s not clear whether you can specify trigger values for those file properties. ![]() (It looks like you can only color columns.) Of course if they it doesn’t, then you can request the feature. ![]() ☆ Far Manager is a free console file manager (like the command-prompt) which means it is text-based. If that is acceptable, then it has exactly what you want. You can create a color-filter via F9→ Options→ Files highlighting and sort groups to highlight zero-byte files (figure 4). They too take feature-requests, but that’s not necessary because it already supports file-coloring ( as of 3.5) according to several factors (figure 5). #XYPLORER FILE MANAGER RANDOM SORT FREE#. ![]()
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