Finding FolderName ending with period

[Robbie]

Hi

I recently did some bulk stuf using CMD and 7ZIP under W10. This resulted in a FolderName ending with a . (period).

ie: folders
- AAA
- AAB
- AAC.
- AAD
- AAE.E
(lot of others !)

TC handles this correctly; and I would like to have the the possibility to find them using Grey+ using a search argument. but whatever search argument i use it does not find the folders involved.
i tried various: i.e.:
"*."
*.

maybe i miss something. Is it even possible?

regards
rob

[Hacker]

Robbie,

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*..

Roman

[Dalai]

Just a note: When creating such directories, you can't do anything with them, neither in TC nor in CMD - no changing to such dir, no renaming, no deleting. So even when you can select them, it's no use. You need to change path specifications to use the long path prefix, i.e.

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rmdir \\?\D:\rive\path.

works while

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rmdir D:\rive\path.

does not.

If you're able to rename or delete such directories, I guess they don't end with a period but have some invisible character after it.

Regards
Dalai

[Robbie]

"Just a note: When creating such directories, you can't do anything with them, neither in TC nor in CMD": Not completely true. but in general, that is why i want to find them for renaming.
IN TC i can dbl click the problem folder (in the example above: AAC.) and remove the '.' and enter, resulting in foldername AAC no problem at all. issue is that there are lots of them and i want to find them iso scanning visually.

it is 7zip that can create such folders when unzipping AAC..7z (note the double dot)

[tuska]

Search queries in TC using the 'Everything' tool (see: signature):

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ev:folder:endwith:.

finds folders with "." dot at the end

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ev:folder:*.* !*.*.*

finds only 1 dot in the folder name

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ev:folder:*.*.*

finds several dots in the folder name

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Windows 10 Pro (x64) Version 1909 (OS build 18363.693)
TC 9.51 RC4 x64/x86 | 'Everything'-Version 1.4.1.967 (x64)
☑ 'Everything' | Search queries: TC <=> 'Everything'

[Robbie]

Confirm:
Grey+: *.*.* finds the folders