{"id":5290,"date":"2021-11-15T02:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=5290"},"modified":"2021-11-15T02:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:10:06","slug":"how-2-folders-with-the-same-name-in-the-same-location","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-8\/how-2-folders-with-the-same-name-in-the-same-location\/1910.html","title":{"rendered":"How 2 Folders With The Same Name In The Same Location?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I have been using folder synchronization for backups for some time now with no problems. (I use BestSync 2015.) About a year ago I purchased a new external drive to use for backups (WD My Passport Ultra). Recently I noticed that my backups had created 2 folders with the same name in the same parent folder, but with different contents! And this has happened more than once! (2 Music folders, 2 Pictures folders, 2 Video folders)<\/p>\n<p>How is it possible that Windows 8.1 would allow this kind of thing? And if I ask Photoshop to open P1040115.JPG from E:\\Pictures\\2014, how do I know which Pictures folder it actually accessed?<\/p>\n<p>I can see this is going to be a mess to clean up! I would use a program like &#8220;Duplicate Cleaner&#8221;, but I&#8217;m not sure if I can trust it to work correctly when the folders have the same name!<\/p>\n<p>I would appreciate any explanation for how this might have happened as well as how I might clean it up (without spending years on it).<\/p>\n<p>thanks,<br \/>\nTodd<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: gray; font-size: small;\">T<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":12},"question-category":[68],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5290","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-8"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/5290","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}