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Old July 10th 19, 11:34 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default two files of the same name in the same directory

Neil wrote:
On 7/9/2019 11:30 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
micky wrote:

I dl'd Everything and found his resume, and it showed two files of the
same name in the same directory. But with different dates. Both of
them his resume.

Now how can that be? I looked for tiny dots that might change the
name, but I couldn't find one. Running win10 on a laptop fwiw.


You never mentioned if extensions were enabled in the view. Without
showing extensions, you could have an unlimited number of files with the
same filename. No mention of what your brother used to write his
resume, but almost every editing app has filetypes (denoting formatting)
that it supports.

I guess you missed my earlier reply. Win10 can now differentiate files
based on case in the name. For example, "MyDocument.docx" and
"mydocument.docx" can now be two different files in the same folder.
Same for folder names, btw.

There are settings to enable/disable this "feature", but I think it's
already too late to prevent Linux-style filename chaos.


Yikes. I would never have guessed.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/comma...ivity-and-wsl/

Imagine the fun if you multiboot, and begin
to examine such a directory from Windows 7.

The guy who invented that feature, is probably
already bald, from the hair loss this causes.

Paul
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