Windows 10: Hidden char in file name showed by command dir

Hi,

In tracking a bug in app, I discovered something very odd.

I have a strange file name in a directory.
If I do a dir command the file name appearing is not the same as with Win Explorer! Even the copy paste from the console removes the extra char.

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Windows Explorer 10: Detail View: Custom Column: How to Modify Field

That doesn't give a clue as to why windows thinks they're folders.

try opening a command prompt to the folder containing the tifs & execute:

dir | clip

let's see if they show as files or directories there. If they show as directories, use
cd <name> and then repeat the dir

Keith

 

Delete an old Home Group in Win 10

Apparently it is Hidden; so, if you aren't letting File Explorer show hidden directories in order to use them you must know that they are there and type them explicitly. To see this you could take a small detour into cmd.exe at that parent directory level.
E.g. just enter cmd.exe there; then, in the cmd window command line enter dir and then enter dir/a and compare the two results. Or you could just enter attrib AppData.



FYI

Robert Aldwinckle

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Nothing unusual about it. These are two different programs that render file names differently, using different APIs (and not even mentioning that they probably use different fonts). If you have a weird/illegal character in the file name, it is not surprising to see this kind of inconsistency between applications.