"Paul A." <PaulA@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:23502723-EF3F-463F-B3FE-17275E87B2A6@xxxxxx
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> 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.