two folders with the same name?

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In winVista, under %userProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn, there
are two folders, both with the name Temporary Burn Folder.
How it comes?
 
geotso said:
In winVista, under %userProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn, there
are two folders, both with the name Temporary Burn Folder.
How it comes?
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ask this in

microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
 
geotso said:
In winVista, under %userProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn,
there are two folders, both with the name Temporary Burn Folder.
How it comes?

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Have another look. One name probably has an extra space
or some other character that you cannot readily see. If you
still think it's the same name, do this:
- Click Start / Run / cmd{OK}
- Type these commands:
cd /d "%Userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn" {Enter}
dir temp*.* > c:\dir.txt{Enter}
notepad c:\dir.txt{Enter}

Now examine the two names very carefully and post them
here if you wish.
 
then, "Pegasus (MVP)" climbed to the rostrum and said:
Have another look. One name probably has an extra space
or some other character that you cannot readily see. If you
still think it's the same name, do this:
- Click Start / Run / cmd{OK}
- Type these commands:
cd /d "%Userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn" {Enter}
dir temp*.* > c:\dir.txt{Enter}
notepad c:\dir.txt{Enter}

Now examine the two names very carefully and post them
here if you wish.
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well,
the simple dir command gives me nothing, while dir /a gives me these folder
names:
Burn
Burn1
!!!!

The same time I open Windows Explorer and I still see Temporary Burn Folder
as the name of both folders!

I think it's time to go to vista ng, as PD43 suggested!
 
In winVista, under %userProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn, there
are two folders, both with the name Temporary Burn Folder.
How it comes?
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Not possible. You can not have two folders with exactly the same name.

Just a guess, but if you have the default of not viewing extensions
set, one of these names may have an extension that the other doesn't.
 
then, "Ken Blake, MVP" climbed to the rostrum and said:
Not possible. You can not have two folders with exactly the same name.
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I had had the same opinion until I posted the same question in vista.general ng.
They told me (and I confirmed it) that the name comes from the desktop.ini
file in each one of the folders according the statement:

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21815
 
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