Larger File Icon

I've been trying to get a large file icon for file types, but when i try using code such as
ShellFolder.getShellFolder(file).getIcon(true)all i get is an icon of 32 x 32 pixels. Is there any way to get an icon of a larger size?

I believe the "larger icon" you are talking about is when you set--use large icons on--and all of your icons are scaled to a larger size by windows. I've not experienced nor seen any docs on making indiviual icons larger than the default value, nor can I get any reference to individual icon sizing in windows.
Here is a link telling you how to make all of your icons as big as you like, I believe the setting is user specific:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5181_make-icons-larger.html

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I am consistently getting upload failures for any files over approximately 95MB in size. This happens with both the Web interface, and the PC client.
With the Web interface the file upload gets to a percentage that would be around the 95MB amount, then fails showing a red icon with a exclamation mark.
With the PC client the file gets to the same percentage equating to approximately 95MB, then resets to 0%, and repeats this continuously. I left my PC running 24/7 for 5 days, and this resulted in around 60GB of upload bandwidth being used just trying to upload a single 100MB file.
I've verified this on two PCs (Win XP, SP3), one laptop (Win 7, 64 bit), and also my work PC (Win 7, 64 bit). I've also verified it with multiple different types and sizes of files. Everything from 1KB to ~95MB upload perfectly, but anything above this size ( I've tried 100MB, 120MB, 180MB, 250MB, 400MB) fails every time.
I've completely uninstalled the PC Client, done a Windows "roll-back", reinstalled, but this has had no effect. I also tried completely wiping the cloud account (deleting all files and disconnecting all devices), and starting from scratch a couple of times, but no improvement.
I phoned technical support yesterday and had a BT support rep remote control my PC, but he was completely unfamiliar with the application and after fumbling around for over two hours, he had no suggestion other than trying to wait for longer to see if the failure would clear itself !!!!!
Basically I suspect my Cloud account is just corrupted in some way and needs to be deleted and recreated from scratch by BT. However I'm not sure how to get them to do this as calling technical support was futile.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Elinor.
Solved!
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Hi,
I too have been having problems uploading a large file (362Mb) for many weeks now and as this topic is marked as SOLVED I wanted to let BT know that it isn't solved for me.
All I want to do is share a video with a friend and thought that BT cloud would be perfect! Oh, if only that were the case :-(
I first tried web upload (as I didn't want to use the PC client's Backup facility) - it failed.
I then tried the PC client Backup.... after about 4 hrs of "progress" it reached 100% and an icon appeared. I selected it and tried to Share it by email, only to have the share fail and no link. Cloud backup thinks it's there but there are no files in my Cloud storage!
I too spent a long time on the phone to Cloud support during which the tech took over my PC. When he began trying to do completely inappropriate and irrelevant things such as cleaning up my temporary internet files and cookies I stopped him.
We did together successfully upload a small file and sharing that was successful - trouble is, it's not that file I want to share!
Finally he said he would escalate the problem to next level of support.
After a couple of weeks of hearing nothing, I called again and went through the same farce again with a different tech. After which he assured me it was already escalated. I demanded that someone give me some kind of update on the problem and he assured me I would hear from BT within a week. I did - they rang to ask if the problem was fixed! Needless to say it isn't.
A couple of weeks later now and I've still heard nothing and it still doesn't work.
Why can't Cloud support at least send me an email to let me know they exist and are working on this problem.
I despair of ever being able to share this file with BT Cloud.
C'mon BT Cloud surely you can do it - many other organisations can!

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What have you checked for resource usage during one of these copies of a large file?
At a minimum I would check Task Manager>Resource Monitor. In particular check the disk and network usage. Also, look at RAM and CPU while the copy is taking place.
What RAID level is there on the file server?
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Thanks for the suggestions. I have monitored the server and can see that the memory is nearly maxed out with a lot of hard faults (varies between several hundred to several thousand), recorded during normal usage. The Disk and CPU seem normal.
I'm going to replace the RAM and double it up to 12GB.
Thanks! This may help with some other issues we are having. I'll post back after it has been done.
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Files icons size is 512 x 512 with maximum grid space???

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Either Firefox or Chrome would be a good alternative.
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