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    I'm trying to figure out why my Live Mesh folder has gone from it's normal blue color to the standard yellow default folder.  I've tried a refresh, but it still looks like a normal folder on my desktop. Still seems to be in good working order.

    Anybody else have this?

    Version 0.9.3103.14
    Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:32 PM

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    Hi Kittyburgers,

    The first question I have, just to verify that the folder is in fact working, is: When you open the folder, do you get the popout mesh bar on the side of the folder?  Do file contents appear to be in sync?

    It can take Live Mesh a little while, after booting up, to log in and change the icon color, but if you're seeing it remain the standard color please go ahead and file a bug on this for us, with your logs attached.  Instructions for collecting logs and submitting a bug are in an Announcement at the top of the forums.

    Thanks,

    Ben.

    P.S. To Tony: thanks for offering help here.  One thing that has been great about these forums so far is how much other customers are willing to help one another.  We're all working to make Live Mesh better. :)
    Monday, September 15, 2008 4:48 PM

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    Did you make a shortcut of the original mesh folder? As in place a shortcut from the folder that might be in the My Docs folder and place the shortcut on the desktop?

    Also does it change when you are logged into Mesh?

    And then change when you are logged out?

    Sunday, September 14, 2008 6:46 PM
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    No, it still looks like a normal folder whether I log  in or log out.  Nothing changes.  It's still blue on my notebook machine.  Perhaps it's just an icon refresh issue.  I generally just let my desktop hibernate overnight, and I haven't actually restarted it for a few days.
    Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:12 PM
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    It's happened to me as well.

    Assuming that when you say it's working you mean that where you *normally* see it as a blue folder (eg as bburzycki says, when you're logged into Mesh) my method for solving it might work for you - it can't do any harm, cos all we're doing is changing the icon, the same as we can with pretty much any file or folder in Windows.

    Go into the folder properties (right-click on the folder in "my computer", click "properties"), click the "customise" tab and click "change icon". Then click "browse" and a file browse box will come up. The icon you want is in the file WLCShell.dll

    In XP, it's somewhere like c:\documents & settings\YOURUSERNAME\local settings\application data\microsoft\live mesh\bin

    In vista, it's c:\users\YOURUSERNAME\appdata\local\microsoft\live mesh\bin

    When you've navigated to that file, you'll see a few icons. It'll be obvious which one to pick.

    I'm guessing this is a Windows problem rather than a Mesh problem, and the solution I used didn't do anything to solve whatever it was that caused the problem - maybe the icon cache, I dunno - Explorer has always been a bit flaky about this sort of thing :)

    tony

    PS none of this means it's not a bug, so the usual advice that others would give applies - if you can find out how to make it happen, might be worth filing a bug report.
    • Edited by Tony Collins Monday, September 15, 2008 10:41 PM
    Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:19 PM
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    Thanks for the suggestion, however, when I actually navigate to the folder you're referring to, I don't see the appropriate blue folder icon, only the MOE configuration and the remote desktop icon.

    Any other ideas?  I'm suspecting it's just an icon cache issue ... like the other issues we've been plagued with for years ... can anybody really honestly say they've had Windows actually remember a particular folder layout that stuck to the way it was configured? ;-)
    Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:19 PM
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    Hmm, I dunno - it might be in another DLL file in that folder. When I look at my WLCShell.dll, I am seeing about 25 of the round Mesh systray icons (all the different types of flashing colours etc.), two folder icons - one bright blue (for sync'd folders) and one light blue (for ones that are only on the live desktop), and a couple of others.

    (As a matter of interest, I just looked in my recycle bin for something - and even though I've only just booted up, every icon has changed.... it reminded me of just how flaky the icon cache is, even though I've set it to be quite high.)

    It might be worth following the steps above and trying different dlls in that folder.

    If one of the Mesh team can point out where else the icon might live, you can do it the way I listed, or go into the registry and essentially do the same thing but instead, paste the full path and icon number (but I think that is just the less-safe way of doing what you were trying to do anyway).

    Other than that, I don't know of any other ways to change an icon - except to do the dreaded un-sync/re-sync, which none of us are doing right now until the "lost files" issue is fixed :)
    Monday, September 15, 2008 7:16 AM
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    Hi Kittyburgers,

    The first question I have, just to verify that the folder is in fact working, is: When you open the folder, do you get the popout mesh bar on the side of the folder?  Do file contents appear to be in sync?

    It can take Live Mesh a little while, after booting up, to log in and change the icon color, but if you're seeing it remain the standard color please go ahead and file a bug on this for us, with your logs attached.  Instructions for collecting logs and submitting a bug are in an Announcement at the top of the forums.

    Thanks,

    Ben.

    P.S. To Tony: thanks for offering help here.  One thing that has been great about these forums so far is how much other customers are willing to help one another.  We're all working to make Live Mesh better. :)
    Monday, September 15, 2008 4:48 PM
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    I have the exact same problem. It occurred when I was trying to change the folder that I was syncing. So far, the only way I have been able to figure out how to fix it is to remove the folder from the mesh, and then add it back to the mesh. Otherwise, it syncs just fine.
    Wednesday, November 5, 2008 7:40 PM
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    It's not exhibiting that behavior anymore.  Not since the last major update.  I seems to have been some sort of refresh issue with the Mesh folder icon.  The popout bar did indeed appear on the side, and all was syncing well when the problem was happening, so I guess it was just some sort of fluke.  I get something like that with my Recycle bin icon from time to time.  Sometimes it dissapears when I empty the trash bin.  If I refresh the desktop, it will usually appear again.
    Thursday, November 6, 2008 6:30 AM
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    Recently had this same thing happen to me.  The icon of the Live Mesh folder shortcut on my desktop turned into a regular yellow folder.  Everything was synced up, tried to restart but the folder was still yellow.  Fixed it by right clicking on the icon, selecting "Properties", then going to the "Shortcut" tab, clicking "Change Icon...", selecting the blue folder, and clicking "OK"
    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 5:43 AM
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    Recently had this same thing happen to me.  The icon of the Live Mesh folder shortcut on my desktop turned into a regular yellow folder.  Everything was synced up, tried to restart but the folder was still yellow.  Fixed it by right clicking on the icon, selecting "Properties", then going to the "Shortcut" tab, clicking "Change Icon...", selecting the blue folder, and clicking "OK"


    I haven't seen this since 2008, when this thread was started, d.a.alfonso. Are you sure that the device is still in your Mesh and that the folder is still synchronizing?

    -steve

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    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:24 AM
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    Yes 100% sure.
    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:20 PM
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    Yes 100% sure.


    Thanks for confirming. Strange. ;-)

    -steve

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    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:55 PM
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    I'm surprised anyone is still using Live Mesh. Hasn't this been more or less replaced with Live Sync?  I've also heard that the name Live Sync will be replaced with Live Mesh (Microsoft, why do you have to make everything so confusing?)

    I stopped using Live Mesh so time ago, as I wasn't certain what the future held for the Mesh platform. I use Live Synce now, and for a sindle folder temp sync, I find Dropbox work better, and also syncs over my LAN automatically instead of through the cloud (that's a big plus!)

     

    KMB

    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:23 PM
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    Hi, Kittyburgers.

    Well, Live Mesh beta will run on XP, while the Live Sync beta that merges Live Sync and Live Mesh (and will be named Live Mesh at release - yes, it is too confusing!) only runs on Vista and 7. Since both are betas and the current Live Mesh environment isn't being shut down right away (no announcement yet as to when it will be shut down) there are still lots of people using Live Mesh. Note, by the way, that Live Mesh also does P2P locally...

    -steve

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    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:58 PM
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