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While checking some of my document folders for erasing unwanted files,
I came across a quite a few documents with identical contents, but
slightly different names, e.g.
''Real'' cost of smoking.doc
__REAL___COST_OF_SMOKING.DOC
The one with all CAPS and underscores has obviously resulted from
conversion of all non-alphabet characters (e.g. like "m-dash" -, "n-
dash" -, comma, parantheses, single quotes, double quotes using Alt
+147 or Alt+148, etc.), and spaces to underscores. I know also that
this has come about when I restored some files from back-up on CD or
DVD. My question is, WHY does this happen, and how to avoid
duplicating files in future.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
I came across a quite a few documents with identical contents, but
slightly different names, e.g.
''Real'' cost of smoking.doc
__REAL___COST_OF_SMOKING.DOC
The one with all CAPS and underscores has obviously resulted from
conversion of all non-alphabet characters (e.g. like "m-dash" -, "n-
dash" -, comma, parantheses, single quotes, double quotes using Alt
+147 or Alt+148, etc.), and spaces to underscores. I know also that
this has come about when I restored some files from back-up on CD or
DVD. My question is, WHY does this happen, and how to avoid
duplicating files in future.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.