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Uhm... I just tried on an old virtual WinXP and I simply wasn't able to create a file ending with a dot!
I guess the original files have been created with a "3rd party" application or another OS...

That seems quite likely. The old drive had lots of radio software on it - much of that old ...

Heh... nobody claimed that Windows lets you do things that are smart or safe! They are 0 bytes, so I'd think it wasn't able to copy them over properly. It stumbled as soon as it made the filesystem entry that makes them show up as 0 byte files.

I didn't get to try that command, as I finally found a ...

Just a suggestion - it may be worthwhile to add *. as a default exclusion on Windows. While Linux, MacOS, and even earlier versions of Windows like WinXP were capable of handling these files, new Windows stumbles on them. Windows expects either a .extension or a blank filename, but never a file ...