WOW Pathetic

[Lloyd Sheen]

And the hits just keep on coming.

MS was there any QA done on this product??

Ok go to explorer and created a folder but accidently put a space prior to
the folder name. Ok should be no problem. F2 in explorer and delete the
space and hit Enter and ..... (wait for it).

Explorer tells me that the new name is the same as the old name. What a
croc.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[Mike]

And the hits just keep on coming.

MS was there any QA done on this product??

Ok go to explorer and created a folder but accidently put a space prior to
the folder name. Ok should be no problem. F2 in explorer and delete the
space and hit Enter and ..... (wait for it).

Explorer tells me that the new name is the same as the old name. What a
croc.

Hardly a show stopper, is it?

Mike

 

[Mark \(MCP\)]

I wrote a small article on Vista stating that Microsoft's WOW marketing
slogan should been "Whoa!"

Many users that are upgrading to Vista are experiencing the most problems.
Although I have some minor issues with Vista Business 32-bit version, Vista
at least run on one of my computers. I may wait for a while to really run
Vista as a primary operating system. Thus, buy a new computer where Vista
has been optimized to run without problems.

 

[philo]

And the hits just keep on coming.

MS was there any QA done on this product??

Ok go to explorer and created a folder but accidently put a space prior to
the folder name. Ok should be no problem. F2 in explorer and delete the
space and hit Enter and ..... (wait for it).

Dang...I just tried that same thing on my win2k machine
and I could not repeat it...
Guess maybe I do need to upgrade to Vista after all

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

Not to be personal but I think that is a bad way to look at it.

It shows that if above the covers there are such problems , I cannot begin
to imagine what problems there are under the covers.

Lloyd

 

[Chris]

And the hits just keep on coming.

MS was there any QA done on this product??

Ok go to explorer and created a folder but accidently put a space prior
to the folder name. Ok should be no problem. F2 in explorer and delete
the space and hit Enter and ..... (wait for it).

Explorer tells me that the new name is the same as the old name. What a
croc.

Lloyd Sheen

I am not sure what you are talking about. I create a folder, hit the
space bar once (twice, thrice, etc...does not matter) then enter a name.
When I hit "enter" the spaces disappear. In other words, I do not
have a problem when I hit F2, because there are no spaces in the name.

 

[Robert Firth]

That is hardly something to call pathetic. All software has bugs, but this
seems particularly picky. It seems that explorer is simply trying to correct
your 'mistake'. You did say to 'create a folder but accidentally put a space
....'. Is this really a realistic, real world scenario where you would want a
folder that starts with a space? Just asking.

I couldn't reproduce because explorer wouldn't save that first space. I had
one folder called 'test' and tried to create one called ' test' but it said
that there was already a folder called test. Even with a new folder name, it
never tells me that the new name is the same as the old name, it just saves
it. When I go to rename it, the space has already been removed. Evidently
it doesn't support file names beginning with a space, but just truncates
them.

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[Nathanial Woolls]

I am not sure what you are talking about. I create a folder, hit the
space bar once (twice, thrice, etc...does not matter) then enter a name.
When I hit "enter" the spaces disappear. In other words, I do not have a
problem when I hit F2, because there are no spaces in the name.

Same here.

 

[Spanky McFly]

Again.... Ol' Lloyd a programmer I think doesn't know how Vista works.
Aren't you the one who lost his files when updating to Vista? I think so.

PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.

 

[David Hearn]

And the hits just keep on coming.

MS was there any QA done on this product??

Ok go to explorer and created a folder but accidently put a space prior
to the folder name. Ok should be no problem. F2 in explorer and delete
the space and hit Enter and ..... (wait for it).

Explorer tells me that the new name is the same as the old name. What a
croc.

Lloyd Sheen

That's because Windows automatically removes the leading spaces from the
folder name before it was created. Thus, when you try renaming it, the
folder is already set as you wanted it, thus it already exists. You
seem to claim that you're able to remove the leading space when renaming
- when I tried it, the space was already gone - which is contrary to
what you said. I'm more likely to trust what I can recreate over
someone's over the top rant claiming a minor bug ruins a whole OS, when
in fact there is no bug.

I guess you could suggest that Microsoft let people create folders with
spaces in them. I for one used to love 'hiding' folders in DOS using
Alt+255 in the filenames. Looked like a space, but wasn't. Great for
hiding game installations on the RM Nimbus 286 machine down in the CDT
department. It was a right pain to remove the folders though, as you
never knew which combination of 8.3 characters were actually there.

D

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

Not claimed but did loose random folders on another partition.

The folders were created within an application and the filesystem allows
folders with leading spaces. Once that happens you have to change the name
in two steps. One to rename to something other than the name with leading
spaces and two to rename it to what you want.

Very strange behaviour but explorer is obviously trimming the leading
spaces. I can change the app that creates the "bad" foldernames but it
seems strange that the underlying filesystem will allow things and explorer
will not.

Oh well.

 

[Al]

Same here.

And here

 

[Al]

And the hits just keep on coming.

MS was there any QA done on this product??

Ok go to explorer and created a folder but accidently put a space prior to
the folder name. Ok should be no problem. F2 in explorer and delete the
space and hit Enter and ..... (wait for it).

Explorer tells me that the new name is the same as the old name. What a
croc.

Lloyd Sheen

You ****, your brain development should not be dependent on your need to
still be breast fed.

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

Perhaps as one item it is not pathetic but given the vast number of problems
eventually something is the straw that breaks the camels back. Since you
can create files with leading spaces (MS should not take things into their
own hands on this type of thing), at least Explorer which is the "window"
into the file system should handle it.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[Rich]

Explorer tells me that the new name is the same as the old name. What a
croc.

Lloyd Sheen

Don't bother,
He's off in Sheenland making up more shit and believing it!

Its his reality, *he* has to debug it

Rich

 

[Guest]

Lloyd. Hey, Lloyd... Over here Lloyd! Read my type: THEN DON'T GO FOR IT!

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