When Windows encounters these baaaad names it displays a truncated filename with a tilde (~) symbol. Name Cleaner from Sig Software sorted out all the problem names, but in amongst 31000 files and several thousand directories were listed just nineteen files called Icon_~1. These are invisible/hidden files, in the odd directory here or there, but no logic as to where they appear. For example, in one folder structure which was carefully created for one particular user last year, three out of 125 directories have this Icon_~1 file. They are all zero bytes and apparently cannot be opened.
I can select them, go to Properties and make them visible and then delete them, but does any cross-platform guru on the list know what creates them in the first place? Then at least I can stop a repeat performance...
Thanks Simon
.......................................................... Simon E. Brown MSc FIMI FBIPP FBPA Director, Media Resources, UCL (University College London) The Windeyer Building, Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JF Phone +44 (0)20 7679 9257 Fax +44 (0)20 7580 0995 Mobile 07802 868531 URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mediares ..........................................................
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