I've been archiving files this week-end. I use external drives, IcyDock removable enclosures and several removable discs. Given the price of harddiscs today, I don't loose time compressing, I copy the files into directories, and for some (e.g. pictures) I like to set a directory icon in Konqueror. There are several USB devices connected to my computer, and depending on the situation the enclosure is not mounted on the same mountring point. Maybe I could solve that with UUIDs but it's not worth the trouble. My point is that setting an icon in Konqueror creates a .directory textfile in the directory that contains two lines: [Desktop Entry] Icon=<path-to-the-icon-file> This path is an absolute path, such as /extusb/directoryname/subdirectoryname/iconname If the mount point changes, the icon is not shown. One way to do is to centralize these icons, but then it won't work if I use the enclosure with another computer. To have my directory icons shown correctly, what I do is put the icon in the directory and manually edit .directory to read [Desktop Entry] Icon=./icon.png I was wondering if others have the same "trouble" and if it would make sense to suggest to change these path to relative ones. Have a nice day, Thierry