Someone know why folder that begins with dot are not compressed ?

[fred.forum]

When you right click and choose "Send To>Compressed (zipped) folder",
folders that begins with dot are not included in the archive and there
is no warning messages.

For exemple, if you have

c:\data\he.txt
c:\data\.Net Folder\he2.txt

and you right click on c:\data and select "Send To>Compressed (zipped)
folder" than c:\data\.Net Folder\he2.txt is not in the compressed
file...

I lost some data for this reasons and I would appreciate to understand
why it's like that?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Files and folders that begin with a period are considered to be "hidden", I
assume that is what caused it to not be included.

Now why they chose to exclude hidden files is beyond me...

 

[Jon]

Looks like Windows is not too happy about folders that start with a dot in
general.

For starters, you can't create one, in the normal way by Right-clicking your
desktop and choosing New > Folder

and putting a dot at the beginning of the name. You can create one at the
command prompt, though
eg using the command

md .net

Jon

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The "dot" is a leftover from DOS days. Anything to the right of the "dot"
is treated as a file extension. Since the folder does not have a complete
name, it may not get processed like the rest.

 

[fred.forum]

It's strange to consider them as hidden because there is a file
attribute for hidden file. It can be acces via the "file
properties/General/Attributes".

I search on my disk for ".*" and there is a lot of files and folders
that begins with dot. It's sad to realize that they will not be include
in a archive. Even Microsoft have files that begins with dot like ".NET
Incremental linking".

I searched an explanation on Microsoft web sites and found nothing...

Is there a rules guiding there decision like: "Do not use folder that
begins with dot...".

 

[Marc]

It's strange to consider them as hidden because there is a file
attribute for hidden file. It can be acces via the "file
properties/General/Attributes".

Some filesystems like MacOS use it. I guess they're being Mac friendly #o)