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Djago
Mar 12, 2020Copper Contributor
Two folders with the same name on the same location
Hi! I have a very strange problem. Today a user send me a screenshot telling me that he can see a folder with Windows File Explorer but not with Total Commander. I went directly to the place wher...
- Mar 12, 2020
Might right-click\Properties and check the location / path (true name). It's possible there's a desktop.ini in there altering the apperance of the folder.
Djago
Mar 13, 2020Copper Contributor
Thanks Dave Patrick! It was desktop.ini meddling with the name. You are my personal "today's hero"!
Dave Patrick
Mar 13, 2020MVP
Glad to hear, you're welcome.
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- DjagoMar 13, 2020Copper Contributor
Dave Patrick Do you have any idea HOW this sort of things can happen?
- Dave PatrickMar 13, 2020MVP
Remember each folder view setting could effect this.
- DjagoMar 13, 2020Copper Contributor
Yes, I know, but how can I change the name of the folder that Explorer is showing? All the options I know are for hidden/not hidden, list, icons, columns, and the like. But there's no place to say "change the name of the file I'm looking at, but don't change the actual folder name"