# Customized icons on Databases and Favorites are not synced

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526>\
**Category:** Scenarios\
**Tags:** feature-request, sync, devonthink3\
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526 "2020-06-12T09:53:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![tevin](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/tevin/32/12981_2.png) [@tevin](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/tevin)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/1 "2020-06-12T09:53:55Z")

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| | Host A | Host B |
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| Database | ![image](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/9/91e2748ffebd943a42052446b6c98cc0a5b2a1bf.png) | ![image](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/7/74271ee22aa2ecf20ce169b788917ca734592105.png) |
| Favorite | ![image](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/5/57b15466723a82f30a0787c17fca5279b69eaa90.png) | ![image](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/9/939a03ba71e53c01b59df45f3b8caf667be94cf8.png) |

I can’t quite remember if the icons of the “ToLearn” and “Bookmarks” were added by myself or synced, most likely the former.

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/2 "2020-06-12T10:01:55Z")

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The customized icons are not part of the database, it’s just a Finder icon and therefore currently not synchronized. And there are no plans to change this as e.g. in a team people might prefer different icons.

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**Author:** ![tevin](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/tevin/32/12981_2.png) [@tevin](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/tevin)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/3 "2020-06-12T10:18:29Z")

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Can I work around this in any way?

I would argue that sharing directory icons between teams make sense too, since that’s how macOS and all sorts of syncing works, Dropbox, iCloud, Samba, NFS you name it, I just can’t find one that isn’t.

However, I agree that favorites could be an exception, for I kind of get it that it is designed to be different from user to user.

I get it that DT3 is not like the above, but please consider to support icon syncing or make it a preference, **it makes it so much easier when you look at a list of folders** (same icons don’t provide any information at all).

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/4 "2020-06-12T10:19:21Z")

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> [@tevin](#):
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> Can I work around this in any way?

No, you have to change the icon on each computer on its own.

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**Author:** ![KillerWhale](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/killerwhale/32/14863_2.png) [@KillerWhale](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/KillerWhale)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/5 "2020-06-12T10:34:26Z")

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If you add customized icons on items inside a database itself (eg groups), are those synced ?

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/6 "2020-06-12T10:35:26Z")

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Sure. In this case it’s part of the database.

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**Author:** ![KillerWhale](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/killerwhale/32/14863_2.png) [@KillerWhale](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/KillerWhale)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/7 "2020-06-12T11:13:47Z")

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Great, thanks!

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**Author:** ![tevin](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/tevin/32/12981_2.png) [@tevin](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/tevin)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/8 "2020-06-13T08:34:47Z")

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If that’s the case I think it is enough to work and I got it wrong.

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**Author:** ![jooz](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@jooz](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/jooz)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/9 "2020-06-13T18:13:37Z")

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If the icon is added to an index folder in Devonthink, should not be the icon be seen in Finder? (this is _not_ the case in my case).

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/10 "2020-06-13T18:36:00Z")

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No. Development would have to assess if this is feasible.

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**Author:** ![jooz](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@jooz](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/jooz)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/11 "2020-06-18T12:17:01Z")

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@cgrunenberg do you think the ability to add icons from Devonthink “groups” to the Finder Folders directly would make sense? This would be a nice “opt-in” feature.

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/customized-icons-on-databases-and-favorites-are-not-synced/56526/12 "2020-06-18T12:47:48Z")

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> [@jooz](#):
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> do you think the ability to add icons from Devonthink “groups” to the Finder Folders directly would make sense? This would be a nice “opt-in” feature.

We’ll consider this for future releases.