vfat folders lose their WinXP customizations if I change their permission in Linux
I hope someone can help me with this. On the WinXP install that I still have on my PC (though I default-boot to SUSE 10.0) I like customizing the icons of my home folders (my "My Documents", "Download Archive" etc) using right-click Properties -> Customize -> Change Icon. Now if I do this on Windows I lose the rwx permissions which I have set for the owner of these vfat folders on Linux. It becomes r-x. If I come back to Linux and set rwx I lose the icon customization on Windows. Can anyone suggest a way to solve this problem? (Other than stopping using Windows, of course...) Shriramana.
On Monday 24 October 2005 11:13 am, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I hope someone can help me with this.
On the WinXP install that I still have on my PC (though I default-boot to SUSE 10.0) I like customizing the icons of my home folders (my "My Documents", "Download Archive" etc) using right-click Properties -> Customize -> Change Icon.
Now if I do this on Windows I lose the rwx permissions which I have set for the owner of these vfat folders on Linux. It becomes r-x. If I come back to Linux and set rwx I lose the icon customization on Windows.
Can anyone suggest a way to solve this problem? (Other than stopping using Windows, of course...) Darn, you stole my answer!
The problem, I think, is that Linux assumes a standard folder when it adds its own changes to a folder. I don't know that you can get past the fact that one changes the properties different from the other. However, you "could" add a folder under the Windows customized one that contains the things you want to modify under Linux, this will logically separate the two. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!
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