Vista Tutorial - Filenames Do Not Match

Can anyone explain this:


The screenshot shows the folder view (in Windows Explorer), and a directory listing (in a Command Line window). Why is the Explorer window showing different filenames than the command line window?

It's not so much of an issue, as I'm currently completing a scheduled backup of this drive using Nero Burning ROM, and will be formatting it soon.

But what if this "glitch" happens again?

When you rename the User shell folders, the renaming is done via the
folder's desktop.ini file with a line like this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName= Old Downloads

The actual folder name stays the same, so that it's in sync with the entries
in the registry under:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]



"Dzomlija" <Dzomlija.36ugm5@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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I understand that, but I haven't yet redirected my user folder to the D:! I only finished building this machine on Friday, and have over the past few days been pre-occupied with data recovery efforts on a lost JBOD array. The D: you see in the screenshot comes right out of my old computer.

Oddly enough though, when I turned the computer on this morning, the filenames matched, and when I renamed a folder back to "Old Downloads", the name change was reflected in both Windows Explorer and Command Line.

See here:


Oh, well. I'll chalk this one up as one of those little mysteries...

So you're saying you never renamed them to 'Old <foldername>'?

That is weird.

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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]



"Dzomlija" <Dzomlija.36v5m5@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Actually, prior to building my new computer, I had that hard drive plugged into a Windows XP machine so that I could determine whether the hard drives where working or not (The old machine suffered a major surge that wasn't stopped by the UPS). It was there that I appended "Old " to the folder names.

When I plugged the drive into the new Vista machine, I got the results that you saw in the screenshot.

Just tested more & I misspoke.

It's not just User shell folders -- any folder that has a display name
assigned by the LocalizedResourceName entry in desktop.ini will, when
renamed, change the LocalizedResourceName rather than the actual folder name
in the file system.

A folder has to have its read-only attribute set to tell Explorer to process
its desktop.ini file. Perhaps the read-only attribute was cleared when the
folder reverted to its actual name.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]



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