Backing up custom icons for Multimedia Types

If you are upgrading from SDL Tridion 2009 SP1, and if you have previously added Multimedia Types to your Content Manager installation, your icons for these Multimedia Types will be removed during the upgrade. Because of this, you must back up these icons.

Procedure

  1. Access web\Library\XML\ subfolder of %TRIDION_HOME% (defaults to C:\Program Files (x86)\Tridion\).
  2. In this location, open the file Icons.xml for editing.
  3. At the bottom of the file, find a section marked <!-- custom mimetypes -->. If you see no such section, you have not added any icons.
  4. In this section, identify the various base elements and check their name attributes. Each attribute value is a letter 'M' followed by the name of a MIME type associated with one of your custom Multimedia Types (for example, Mapplication%2Fpff if the MIME type is application/pff).
  5. Go through the list of base elements and compile a list of MIME types.
  6. Next, in Content Manager Explorer, access the list of Multimedia Types. You can find this list in the Content Configuration node,which you can find in the System Administration node.
  7. In the list, find and open the Multimedia Types that you added. The following Multimedia Types are shipped with the product:
    • Gif image
    • Jpeg image
    • Png image
    • Word document
    • Excel sheet
    • Powerpoint presentation
    • Pdf document
    • Sound file
    • Plain text
    • Rich text
    • Executable
    • MSAccess database
    • Bitmap image
    • Real player
    • QuickTime movie
    • Mp3 music
    • Mpeg video
    • Flash file
    • Cascading style sheets
    • Java script
  8. Verify that the Multimedia Types you identified are indeed custom types by comparing each item's MIME Type field against the list of MIME types you collected from the Icons.xml file. For each item, right-click the icons you see and save them to a backup location of your choosing, and for convenience, note down which icons belong with with custom Multimedia Type.
  9. Repeat this until you have found Multimedia Types for all MIME types listed in Icons.xml. You have now saved all custom icons you added.