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- what's in your desktop.ini after changing the file-name? (normally nothing more than the icon)

So I have a file called "test" and I change it in windows explorer to "test ABC"

The new file name is stated in desktop.ini located in the folder directory.

From desktop.ini ...

That is very interesting and I have also retested using DOS and it is definitely not changing the DOS file name and in fact FFS only sees the desktop.ini file change when the directory is changed using explorer.

So I am guessing this must be windows version problem I am using windows 7 64bit what ...

I have done more research in to this and the problem is that at the DOS level the filename has not changed

For Example
folder named "test" created in windows explorer and the folder ICON is now customised
so it has a desktop.ini file.

At the dos prompt do a "dir" on the folder and you see a ...

I have a problem that when I change a folder Icon to a picture using a .ico file stored in the same folder, that when FFS does a comparison of a folder that has had its name changed it is not picked up and there it is not backed up.

I have changed other folders in the same directory that have not ...