XP Quirks List

Here is a strange behavior by XP Pro.
What have you found?

Windows Explorer
Create a new folder.
Try to name it
@ New Folder
What happens and why?

The result is a legal usable name but not what you typed in.



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"OldGuy" wrote in message
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Here is a strange behavior by XP Pro.
What have you found?

Windows Explorer
Create a new folder.
Try to name it
@ New Folder
What happens and why?

The result is a legal usable name but not what you typed in.


No @
No |
No \
No
No
All illegal in a File Name

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:13:52 -0700, OldGuy wrote:
Here is a strange behavior by XP Pro.
What have you found?

Windows Explorer
Create a new folder.
Try to name it
@ New Folder
What happens and why?

The result is a legal usable name but not what you typed in.

Oddly interresting...
It might have something to do with Explorer's natural sorting.

Either way, it's a bug.

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 02:47:27 -0600, Hot-Text wrote:
No @
No |
No \
No
No
All illegal in a File Name

"@" is a valid character for file/directory names.
These ones are illegal: : " / \ | ? *

The problem is the loss of space between the "@" and "N", after the rename.

"@ New Folder" became "@New Folder"

or

"@ ABC" became "@ABC"

"JJ" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 02:47:27 -0600, Hot-Text wrote:
All illegal in a File Name
"@" is a valid character for file/directory names.
These ones are illegal: : " / \ | ? *
The problem is the loss of space between the "@" and "N", after the
rename.
"@ New Folder" became "@New Folder"
or
"@ ABC" became "@ABC"

So use
@_New Folder
or
@-ABC

for ©need the some to
or
®_NEED
©-Needs

That life
have a good day

JJ wrote on 8/20/2013 :
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:13:52 -0700, OldGuy wrote:
Here is a strange behavior by XP Pro.
What have you found?

Windows Explorer
Create a new folder.
Try to name it
@ New Folder
What happens and why?

The result is a legal usable name but not what you typed in.

Oddly interresting...
It might have something to do with Explorer's natural sorting.

Either way, it's a bug.

I am sure MS will get right on it. It has only been there since day
one.

I believe it has to do with command line parsing.
The @ is used to signify that the following string is a reference for
the application being called from a command line.
e.g. In the case of WinZip @list
where @list is the name of a file containing a list of files to include
in the zip being created.
MS is probably just helping make sure that there is no space between
the @ and the filename in a command string. But that is sort of
misplaced here for filename or folder-name creation.



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