Custom folder icon, overrding non-existant TrureNAS feature

[hananc]

In TrureNAS you cannot change the folder icon.

From this thread in the TrueNAS forum, it frustrates some users.

https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/can-i-change-folder-icons-on-nas-storage.109920/

Maybe it would be a good idea to add a feature so that the change will be possible when using TC. Might be a nice selling point for TC.

[ghisler(Author)]

That doesn't work because TrueNAS uses Linux, and on Linux file systems there are no Windows attributes like "read only", "hidden" or "system", which Windows sets to indicate a changed icon. There is a Linux permissions "read", "write" and "execute", but removing "write" from a folder to indicate read only really disallows writing to the folder.