Vista - BUG: Explorer, can't rename a folder to ".config"

Found a bug in Explorer:

you cannot create a new folder and name it ".config" (w/o quotes, of
course)

Also exists on XP.

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-Gernot
int main(int argc, char** argv) {printf
("%silto%c%cf%cgl%ssic%ccom%c", "ma", 58, 'g', 64, "ba", 46, 10);}

No bug that is, config is a reserved name.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Found a bug in Explorer:
>
> you cannot create a new folder and name it ".config" (w/o quotes, of
> course)
>
> Also exists on XP.
>
> --
> -Gernot
> int main(int argc, char** argv) {printf ("%silto%c%cf%cgl%ssic%ccom%c",
> "ma", 58, 'g', 64, "ba", 46, 10);}
>
>
>
>

> No bug that is, config is a reserved name.


the name is ".config" (see the dot) and with mkdir I can create it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gernot Frisch [mailto:Me@Privacy.net]
> Posted At: Thursday, November 09, 2006 3:01 PM
> Posted To: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
> Conversation: Explorer, can't rename a folder to ".config"
> Subject: Re: Explorer, can't rename a folder to ".config"
>
> > No bug that is, config is a reserved name.
>
> the name is ".config" (see the dot) and with mkdir I can create it.
>

AFAIK you cannot create a folder or file with *any* name starting with a
dot in XP using GUI.

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Alexander Suhovey

Alexander Suhovey wrote:
>
> AFAIK you cannot create a folder or file with *any* name starting with a
> dot in XP using GUI.

That is correct. A strange limitation of Explorer as folder names that
begin with a dot (.) are perfectly legit.
--
Tom Porterfield

"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Alexander Suhovey wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK you cannot create a folder or file with *any* name starting with a
>> dot in XP using GUI.
>
> That is correct. A strange limitation of Explorer as folder names that
> begin with a dot (.) are perfectly legit.
> --
> Tom Porterfield

Probably it does something to do with default Explorer behaviour of hiding
file extensions.

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Alexander Suhovey

When an item starts with a "." it usually is followed by a file type. Now, if
you want to create a folder calles "config" you can, then you have a config
folder. But you can not name anything ".config" because it would make it a
config file, not just a folder named config. .config, if I remember right is
a configuration setting.
Windows thinkd you are playing with the structure of windows, and doesn't
like it.

"Gernot Frisch" wrote:

> Found a bug in Explorer:
>
> you cannot create a new folder and name it ".config" (w/o quotes, of
> course)
>
> Also exists on XP.
>
> --
> -Gernot
> int main(int argc, char** argv) {printf
> ("%silto%c%cf%cgl%ssic%ccom%c", "ma", 58, 'g', 64, "ba", 46, 10);}
>
>
>
>
>

Here's a bug. I have noticed in an Explorer Window, that when you select a
folder with a period in the name, that the new Explorer Bar (just below the
old Menu Bar, if you have it showing) shows the Explore icon incorrectly.
E.g., the Config.Msi folder shows the Windows Installer icon, the
$RECYCLE.BIN folder shows the generic icon, as does Windows.old, a folder
named xyz.txt shows a Notepad icon, etc. Otherwise, a folder selected
without a period in the name always has the same Explore icon.

Dean

"Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:O8gXMLBBHHA.3836@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Alexander Suhovey wrote:
>>>
>>> AFAIK you cannot create a folder or file with *any* name starting with a
>>> dot in XP using GUI.
>>
>> That is correct. A strange limitation of Explorer as folder names that
>> begin with a dot (.) are perfectly legit.
>> --
>> Tom Porterfield
>
> Probably it does something to do with default Explorer behaviour of hiding
> file extensions.
>
> --
> Alexander Suhovey

Gene Fitz wrote:
> When an item starts with a "." it usually is followed by a file type.
> Now, if you want to create a folder calles "config" you can, then you
> have a config folder. But you can not name anything ".config" because it
> would make it a config file, not just a folder named config. .config, if
> I remember right is a configuration setting.
> Windows thinkd you are playing with the structure of windows, and doesn't
> like it.

It is perfectly legit to have a folder with a dot (.) in the name. Explorer
will even allow you to do it, just not if the name starts with a dot. But
you can create folders where the name starts with a dot at the command
prompt.
--
Tom Porterfield