I have seen something strange. I wanted to copy the current directory to another one (to make a backupt). The caps lock was on, so I typed instead of "71" "/!". Then recursivly directories were created again and again. For my luck, I could interrupt this process. the progress bar also showed some erronous values like 161% progress.
The bug I want to show: Why did a directory "/!" cause recursivly create the same directory on step deeper again and again?
Is that a bug at all?
copy directory: recursivly because of type error
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The forward slash is interpreted like a backslash by Windows, but ignored by TC. Please don't use the forward slash in file names.
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I said, this was a unlucky typing error because caps lock was switched on.ghisler(Author) wrote:The forward slash is interpreted like a backslash by Windows, but ignored by TC. Please don't use the forward slash in file names.
Would it be an idea to warn a user by a message box, if letters like '/' were in file/directory names and such a thing could happen?
Francesco