Bug: Vista File Copy Dialog

A source directory has files named with the pattern filename~N.ext where “N�
is a number 1, 2, 4, 15, etc.

Many files share similar names, but the “N� is unique to each file. When I
copy the folder to a new location (drag-and-drop the folder) I get the File
Copy dialog:

There is already a file with the same name in this location.

- Copy and Replace (filename~2.ext)
- Don’t copy (filename~10.ext)
- Copy, but keep both files

Vista is trying to replace filename~10.ext with filename~2.ext, even though
these are unique files with unique names.


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"Paul A." <> wrote in message
news:2460A2C8-4780-4CFD-9F9D-...
>A source directory has files named with the pattern filename~N.ext where
> “N�
> is a number 1, 2, 4, 15, etc.
>
> Many files share similar names, but the “N� is unique to each file. When I
> copy the folder to a new location (drag-and-drop the folder) I get the
> File
> Copy dialog:
>
> There is already a file with the same name in this location.
>
> - Copy and Replace (filename~2.ext)
> - Don’t copy (filename~10.ext)
> - Copy, but keep both files
>
> Vista is trying to replace filename~10.ext with filename~2.ext, even
> though
> these are unique files with unique names.

That isn't happening for me. Is the tilde really part of the filename? They
look like they could be 8.3 filenames from a FAT filesystem which may have
corrupt VFAT (long file name) entries or something odd like that. Perhaps it
thinks the LFNs are the same.
What is the source of these files?

Thanks for the clues. It seems Vista is confusing my filenames
with 8.3-generated names.
I cannot recreate the problem if the filenames are 9 characters or longer.
The files have tilde+number as part of the name. The source system
creates unique files with tilde+number as part of the name. This is it's
scheme for managing revisions. The files are recently created on
NTFS. To recreate the problem, create these files in a Vista folder.

007419~1.txt
007419~10.txt
007419~2.txt

Actually, if you create the files in Vista, it will complain when you name
the
third file:
-- Do you want to rename "007419.txt" to "007419~10(2).txt"?

"Paul A." <> wrote in message
news:23502723-EF3F-463F-B3FE-...
> Thanks for the clues. It seems Vista is confusing my filenames
> with 8.3-generated names.
> I cannot recreate the problem if the filenames are 9 characters or longer.
> The files have tilde+number as part of the name. The source system
> creates unique files with tilde+number as part of the name. This is it's
> scheme for managing revisions. The files are recently created on
> NTFS. To recreate the problem, create these files in a Vista folder.
>
> 007419~1.txt
> 007419~10.txt
> 007419~2.txt
>
> Actually, if you create the files in Vista, it will complain when you name
> the
> third file:
> -- Do you want to rename "007419.txt" to "007419~10(2).txt"?

You're onto something here

It's fine with everything (that I've tried so far) except 123456~10.ext
followed by 123456~2.ext
It almost looks as if it's treating the ~10 as binary, but I'm sure that's
just a coincidence.