Please answer the following questions:
1) Is the movie saved on the network drive?
2) Do you find the icon when you open the location \\%COMPUTERNAME%\movies\movie icons\movieicon.ico?
If the icon location is saved locally on the computer then the Icon shortcut location would be the same.
Hello, thank you for the quick reply!
1) No, the movie is stored locally. However I am trying to set a network shortcut.
For example, lets say the name of the file is "Movie.mkv" and it is stored on "C:\movies\storage\" and I am sharing the folder "C:\movies" as "Movies" on my homegroup.
So everyone in my homegroup can find it under "\\Mypc\Movies\storage" and open the file how they want.
What I am trying to do is make a shortcut in "C:\Movies" to "Movie.mkv" via the UNC name so that when viewed from the homegroup I can hide the file and extention. This works great and I have no issues with this.
Now I am trying to set an icon "MoviePoster.ico" for the shortcut, I store the icon in "C:\Movies\icons" so it is shared as well in "\\Mypc\Movies\icons" yet when I set the custom icon for the shortcut using the UNC path it does not work, and uses "\\%COMPUTERNAME%\Movies\icons\MoviePoster.ico"
instead of "\\Mypc\Movies\icons\MoviePoster.ico".
I have not tried but I think I remember being able to do this in windows 7 I have a friends pc I can try it on to find out for sure later, but I think there is for sure some kind of bug going on here and its not a limitation of windows itself.
2) Well this is interesting the link does work to pull up the file on my computer locally, but it does not work for the icon on the shortcut.
Once again thank you for your reply.
