{"id":2880,"date":"2021-10-29T10:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&p=2880"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:44:15","slug":"duplicate-folder-names-different-case-ntfs","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-10\/duplicate-folder-names-different-case-ntfs\/1017.html","title":{"rendered":"Duplicate Folder Names (Different Case) – NTFS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello!<\/p>\n

I have a weird situation and not quite sure how to resolve. I have a folder, on Drive D: (NTFS). Inside that folder are two folders with the exact same name.<\/p>\n

I didn’t think this was possible considering that NTFS was a case-preserving, but case-insensitive file-system yet here I am.<\/p>\n

Proof (since I know none of you will believe me):<\/p>\n

Screenshot from Windows Explorer:
\nhttps:\/\/i.imgur.com\/da3u1KV.png<\/a><\/p>\n

Screenshot from an Administrative command prompt with dir \/A output:
\nhttps:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gbZwlVX.png<\/a><\/p>\n

Same as above but with the “\/W” wide-format switch so you can see Windows isn’t showing any additional characters either in-front or at the end of the directory names:
\nhttps:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8fBly0M.png<\/a><\/p>\n

And last, screen shots from the Explorer “Properties” view for both of the folders. They’re the exact same size. They’re duplicates!<\/p>\n

“Data” folder Properties:
\nhttps:\/\/i.imgur.com\/eQVhP2F.png<\/a><\/p>\n

“data” folder Properties:
\nhttps:\/\/i.imgur.com\/CDuhCAS.png<\/a><\/p>\n

So my question is:
\nHow can I delete one of those folders?<\/b>\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

How all this started was I was trying to back up the parent folder with 7-Zip and 7-Zip kept on failing on me:
\nhttps:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Leh8Dlm.png<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":2},"question-category":[65],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-10"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}