Alan
December 6th 03, 01:39 PM
Hi Brad,
From your description and the file names you gave (if they are actual file
names), it sounds as if you have an application that might be unable to
handle long file names.
In your example, the original file is being renamed to fit an 8.3 template.
Of course, there is always the possibility of a virus.
Alan
"Brad Herrin" > wrote in message
...
> Ocassionaly, searches for a file that is known to exist
> fails to succeed in finding the file. With further
> searching, I was able to find the files under a new name.
> In fact yesterday I found over 200 files that had been re-
> named. Every one of them had the original 6 characters in
> the name, then ~ followed by a single character and the
> file type extension. For example a file that was
> originaly named "400564OP1-H5.MC8" would be found
> re-named as "400564~5.MC8".
> This happens randomly for some unknown reason.
> Can anyone exlain what might be causing this?
> If so, please reply.
>
From your description and the file names you gave (if they are actual file
names), it sounds as if you have an application that might be unable to
handle long file names.
In your example, the original file is being renamed to fit an 8.3 template.
Of course, there is always the possibility of a virus.
Alan
"Brad Herrin" > wrote in message
...
> Ocassionaly, searches for a file that is known to exist
> fails to succeed in finding the file. With further
> searching, I was able to find the files under a new name.
> In fact yesterday I found over 200 files that had been re-
> named. Every one of them had the original 6 characters in
> the name, then ~ followed by a single character and the
> file type extension. For example a file that was
> originaly named "400564OP1-H5.MC8" would be found
> re-named as "400564~5.MC8".
> This happens randomly for some unknown reason.
> Can anyone exlain what might be causing this?
> If so, please reply.
>