~ in file folder name

[Guest]

I saved a folder from a cd to my hard drive the folder was named TEST2 AND
TEST2PLUS - VALIDATION PORT DOCUMENT - ENGLISH VERSION (91-2100-003). When I
looked at the folder on my hard drive it was named TEST1~8. Is this because
the folder name was to long? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Gordon]

I saved a folder from a cd to my hard drive the folder was named TEST2 AND
TEST2PLUS - VALIDATION PORT DOCUMENT - ENGLISH VERSION (91-2100-003). When
I looked at the folder on my hard drive it was named TEST1~8. Is this
because the folder name was to long?
yes.

Any help would be greatly

What do you need help with? Just rename the file on your HDD to its original
name.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion but I was really trying to find out for my own
information what this ~ means or is telling me.

Dennis B

 

[Gordon]

Thanks for the suggestion but I was really trying to find out for my own
information what this ~ means or is telling me.

Thats the old DOS 8.3 filename system. If you go to Start-Run-cmd (return)
and at the C: prompt type "dir /p" (without the quotes) you'll see lots of
file and folder names that are truncated with ~ in.

HTH

 

[Rich]

I use the tilde to get the file to be at the top of the list when sorting by
name for frequently used files in large folders. For what it's worth.

~somfilename.XXX will always be at the top when sorting by name verses
having to search for the file 2/3 down the list.

Rich

 

[NewScience]

When I use the Start-Run-cmd, dir /p, I don't get any short filenames
containing ~ on Windows XP Pro.
They are all long filenames. When I enter dir /x, I get the short filenames
as well as the long filenames.

 

[Gordon]

When I use the Start-Run-cmd, dir /p, I don't get any short filenames
containing ~ on Windows XP Pro.

depends on what files you have in that folder......
If you go to C:> and do dir /p then you should see C:\Documents and Settings
as something like C:\DOCUM~s

 

[Pop`]

I saved a folder from a cd to my hard drive the folder was named
TEST2 AND TEST2PLUS - VALIDATION PORT DOCUMENT - ENGLISH VERSION
(91-2100-003). When I looked at the folder on my hard drive it was
named TEST1~8. Is this because the folder name was to long? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

At first I thought it was a DOS filename; they have the format of 8-3 and
folders will be 8 characters long.
But then I noticed "test1~8" is only 7 characters long and it should be
8. For the DOS format, it should have been "test2a~1". Did you possibly
mis-type the file names? It's not the space in the filenames: spaces are
ignored in DOS naming conventions of this type. And how test2.... became
test1~8 is also strange. That would indicate there should be a test1~7,
test1~6, and so on.

If not a typo, then something strange happened that I'm not familiar with.

Exactly how, step by step, did you do the copying? Then perhaps a guess is
more possible.
What application did you do the copy operation with?

Pop`

 

[NewScience]

Nope. I get Document and Settings.

I tried Start | Run ... cmd and Start | Run ... command both and get the
same results.

I have Windows XP Pro SP2
Is that the same as your system?

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

Nope. I get Document and Settings.

I tried Start | Run ... cmd and Start | Run ... command both and get the
same results.

When running command.com, the command prompt displayed (assuming the default
PROMPT environment variable hasn't been changed from $P$G to something else)
should show the truncated path (eg, C:\DOCUME~1\<profile>), whereas if you
run cmd.exe, it should show the full "C:\Documents and Settings\<profile>"
path.

The 'dir' command itself, however, should still output the longer format,
whether you're using cmd.exe or command.com.

At least that's what I'm seeing here on XP Pro SP2.

 

[NewScience]

That's what I find as well. If I want the short name, I use dir /x.