Path to parent directories

[Orus]

Hi,

I have created a .ini file in one of my folders and - in order to give it a customised icon - I added the following line:

[.ShellClassInfo]

ConfirmFileOp=1

IconFile=..\Custom.ico

IconIndex=0

The icon Custom.ico resides in the parent folder. Thus I created a relative path using ..\ in order to link to the icon contained one level up in the hierarchy. It works just fine!

The problem is that I would like to link to an icon wich must be TWO levels up and not just one from the foder containing the .ini file. I tried to modify as follows but it did not work:

[.ShellClassInfo]

ConfirmFileOp=1

IconFile=..\..\Custom.ico

IconIndex=0

Does anyone know why ..\..\ is not the right solution? Or what am I missing in the code?

Thank you.

[jaclaz]

Well, it's strange, it seems like working for me with "Desktop.ini"

jaclaz

[Orus]

Well, it's strange, it seems like working for me with "Desktop.ini"

jaclaz

jaclaz could you please show me your desktop.ini code?

[jaclaz]

Sure, it's identical to yours:

Strecture:

\bootfiles\

\bootfiles\custom.ico

\bootfiles\test\test\

\bootfiles\test\test\Desktop.ini

Contents of \bootfiles\test\test\Desktop.ini

[.ShellClassInfo]
ConfirmFileOp=1
IconFile=..\..\custom.ico
IconIndex=0

I simply used the GUI interface of XP to have the selected folder of the type "documents" then selected the icon I wanted to show, the Desktop.ini file inside the folder was:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemDrive%\bootfiles\custom.ico
IconIndex=0

I manually changed the path to the relative one and added the line that was in your example "ConfirmFileOp=1" (just to make sure it was not that part the problem).

jaclaz