Unintended Creation of Files

Hey guys, I frequently like to pull Notepad up, jot down my thoughts kind of like a journal thing, and then store them in a special folder. There's no special organization yet, they literally are just kind of my random thoughts that I'd like to come back to without forgetting about them, and if they merit further attention, I come back to them. With that said, I noticed a peculiar bug that I think is part of the operating systems fault, not Notepad's.

The bug happened when I opened one of my thoughts I had written down, realized I needed to give the file a better name than just "thought" as well as correct a typo. First thing I did was fix the typo, did not save the file yet, right clicked on the file icon to rename it, changed the name, and once the file's name had been changed, I hit the exit button with my mouse. It prompted me to save changes, and so I clicked yes, even though it still had the old name as the file to save it as. Sure enough, Windows 7 decided that I needed a file with that name and created a new one for me, effectively give me the same file twice, one with the old name which had newly been created, and one with the name I changed it to.

While I'm guessing this could be an application error in how the programmer is making API calls to the underlying system, I think this is simply the operating system behaving in an unintended way and it should update any application running with the correct name because while my simple little case required duplication generated only a few bytes, imagine the same thing happening for massive files. I am assuming that Windows 7 allocated separate memory for this, which if it isn't, then my bad, but I would still call it a minor bug, even in that case. What do you guys think?

When saving, use 'Save As' instead of 'Save'.

Lets you rename the file, change the save location etc.

There's no need to right-click on icons to change names.

As you have done it, the file with the NEW name will be the OLD file, and vice-versa.

Hello Layke1123 and welcome to Seven Forums.

For what you do, have you considered using some editor other than Notepad?
A popular recommended choice is Notepad++.
I prefer Crimson Editor.
These are free, and there may be other editors someone else could recommend.

Textpad is another editor I've used and like, but the last i know it's Shareware.
Put up with nag messages, or pay for the registered version.

These editors allow viewing/saving/editing multiple files in one Window.
You could have Thought1, Thought2, etc. files open in one Window at the same time, and easily switch between files.

I prefer Crimson because it has Print Preview.
Crimson is end of life (bummer), but it does work with Win 7.
Notepad++ does NOT have print preview that i know of (bummer), but it does have Rename.

You would have a bit of a learning curve, but it might well be worth it.
After you learn these editor(s) copying, editing, saving, viewing new/multiple files is easy, and a nice improvement over Notepad.

Below are some screen prints so you can see what I'm trying to explain.

Hope this helps,
David

Have you scanned your PC with Antivirus program it seems to be a case of virus program.