For the second time now I renamed a folder and it vanished completely. To do the rename I clicked on the parent directory in the left pane of Windows Explorer then renamed the folder in the right pane.
After it vanished I did a refresh, ran CHKDSK (after reboot) etc. but it did not find it.
The strange thing is if I run a DOS command prompt and do a DIR it is still there (under the old name). I can read the contents and copy them elsewhere, but no matter what I do the folder does not show up in Windows Explorer, either under the new or the old name.
The old folder was called Public Building and I simply tried to rename it to Public Buildings.
I am running Vista Home Premium.
Did some more searching. This gets very murky!
As an experiment I tried creating a new folder via Windows Explorer called Public Buildings. It worked. I then tried to create a new folder called Public Building. It came up with an error saying a folder called Pictures already exists. Do you want to merge it or something.
I checked the directory listing again and sure enough, there is a folder sitting there called Pictures and it is my old "Public Building" folder.
That triggered the old brain cells. Some time ago I changed the default My Pictures folder via Regedit to be that Public Buildings folder above, using the registry hack documented at http://www.justanswer.com/computer/2shxw-prevent-save-dialog-box-reverting-default.html
ie. I changed the My Pictures value in HKeyCurrentUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
to that directory.
So there is obviously something that does not like that folder being renamed, or gets confused and makes the new name "Pictures" instead of what I tried to use. Is it a bug in Vista or a "design feature"?
After it vanished I did a refresh, ran CHKDSK (after reboot) etc. but it did not find it.
The strange thing is if I run a DOS command prompt and do a DIR it is still there (under the old name). I can read the contents and copy them elsewhere, but no matter what I do the folder does not show up in Windows Explorer, either under the new or the old name.
The old folder was called Public Building and I simply tried to rename it to Public Buildings.
I am running Vista Home Premium.
Did some more searching. This gets very murky!
As an experiment I tried creating a new folder via Windows Explorer called Public Buildings. It worked. I then tried to create a new folder called Public Building. It came up with an error saying a folder called Pictures already exists. Do you want to merge it or something.
I checked the directory listing again and sure enough, there is a folder sitting there called Pictures and it is my old "Public Building" folder.
That triggered the old brain cells. Some time ago I changed the default My Pictures folder via Regedit to be that Public Buildings folder above, using the registry hack documented at http://www.justanswer.com/computer/2shxw-prevent-save-dialog-box-reverting-default.html
ie. I changed the My Pictures value in HKeyCurrentUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
to that directory.
So there is obviously something that does not like that folder being renamed, or gets confused and makes the new name "Pictures" instead of what I tried to use. Is it a bug in Vista or a "design feature"?
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