Well, fortunately I've found a more recent calibre config folder backup that doesn't trigger the custom icons not showing issue. Actually, I was able to narrow down the date when the issue started: it was between a backup dated from 09/09/2023, which is the last working one, and another from 09/13/2023, which is the first config where the issue occurs. I did a Winmerge folder comparison, but wasn't able to spot any obvious difference that could affect custom icons:
So I'm currently in the process of merging the last good config folder with my latest settings, with which I'm very pleased. The ongoing merge goes like this:
- To begin with, I've restored last good calibre config folder from 09/09/2023.
- ran calibre, updated all plugins, installed the ones I had not installed on the restored config
- all is good. icons show. backed up config folder until now.
- ran calibre, imported all chains that I had exported from a Calibre Portable 7.6 install, which had been imported from my latest icon-bugged config on main install.
(BTW: On Calibre Portable, the same chains from the bugged config wouldn't work immediately upon import. But after restarting Calibre Portable, the custom icons did show up! I found this only today)
- all is good. icons show. did another "ongoing-config-merge" backup.
- replaced all files in the root of the calibre config folder with the correspondent files from my icon-bugged config. ran calibre.
- all is good. icons show. did another "ongoing-config-merge" backup. Now I have restored almost all my current Calibre settings from the most recent backup I made today 05:00AM before the merge, except for individual plugin settings, which sit in the plugin folder.
- replaced all files in the plugins config folder with the ones in my 5:00AM backup, leaving only action-chains subfolder, Action Chains.json and Action Chains.zip untouched.
- this time when I ran Calibre, the issue came back. Custom icons were gone again. Now i'll have to restore my latest ongoing merge backup and replace the individual plugins' settings one by one.
edit: All good now!! yaaaaay. I'm so happy that I'm able to choose my chain icons again, phew. Thanks capink for looking. I was able to restore every bit of my latest settings and narrow down the issue to one specific plugin, now I'm gonna need to watch carefully for some time to see if I can pinpoint which of my settings could be interfering (JS+) --- new edit: I've found that toggling the setting for increasing search bar history visible items triggers the issue. I've added a small video demonstrating this, just for the record.