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Good point Gav, always create a folder to extract to, don`t just let a folder extract.
Can't delete or open folder that end with a dot
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New #13
I must not be following your instructions correctly.
Starting with the sample RAR that I've attached to this post...
...I selected Extract files... from the context menu.
Doing that, offered me this:
Notice that the period after "new" has automatically been removed by WinRAR.
Clicking OK in the screen shown above gets me this:
Going inside of "new" shows me this:
A folder with a problematic name for Windows.
Selecting Extract...
...offers* me this:
Notice that the period is there... but it is ignored. The resulting folder will not have a period on the end. However, 7ZIP modifies the names of "invalid" folders, sub-folders and file names as it extracts/writes the contents of the RAR. Such renaming would be a nightmare for my Mac users. Server admins might want to stick with WinRAR - which correctly names things exactly as they exist inside the RAR. I use a Windows based computer to remote into Windows based file server and use WinRAR to extract files to be used by Mac users
*oddly enough, I was only offered that path one time. After that, the path was simply C:\TempLast edited by UsernameIssues; 24 May 2015 at 13:32.
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New #14
I get:
D:\temp\new.rar
D:\temp\new
D:\temp\new\new_
D:\temp\new\new_\test_
D:\temp\new\new_\test_\test.txt_
so it looks like 7-ZIp replaces . with _. Not sure if that's good or bad.
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New #15
The "new." folder had one dot.
The "test.." folder had two dots.
I don't recall how many dots the file had.
Interesting choice by 7ZIP
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Posts : 96 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1 Thread StarterNew #16
I think that is good.
Cos if it was extract on windows, there would be no way to open, delete or move that folder
There would be no way for you to read test.txt, since you can't open that folder.
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Posts : 96 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1 Thread StarterNew #17
For people wondering how to get this same problem...
You need to have more than one rar file.
With one of the rar file with the offending name..,
e.g.
-aaa..rar
-b.rar
Extracted.
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Winrar will happily create folder "aaa."
7z - There's no way to create the aaa. because it does not have that same menu item like winrar.
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I have attached some sample files, for anyone that wants to test this..
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New #18
Madmax2, your screenshots are not shown. Would you re-upload them pleas?
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Posts : 96 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1 Thread StarterNew #19
which one?
Here is the direct link
https://i.imgur.com/LCpwP53.png
I can see it on my own computer...
Try refresh the page?
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if you can't see the image then the instruction is
Select both files RAR files
-aaa..rar
-b.rar
Right click > extract each archive to separate folder
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New #20
But it is bad if the application on the Linux box was expecting the files on the Windows file server to be in folders with specific names. Renaming Program Files folder to Program Files_ won't work so well for you on your Windows based computer.I think that is good.
Cos if it was extract on windows, there would be no way to open, delete or move that folder
There would be no way for you to read test.txt, since you can't open that folder.
There are lots of companies that use Windows based file servers to serve up files to users on different platforms (e.g. Microsoft OS, Apple OS, Linux/Unix). Even home users have mixed platforms.
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