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I have been disturbed by this problem for a long time, hope someone out there is able to to help me with it. Not sure ifs its a bug of Vista or settings error.
From my knowledge and when I am using Windows XP whenever batch files are being renamed together, by right it will be automatically renamed into Eg. Picture, Picture(1), Picture(2), Picture(3) etc.. But for my case, it actually allows duplicate names in a folder.
There is probably an extra identifier that is not showing. Try right-clicking on a pair of "identical" files and compare their Properties. Look at the extensions, one might be .jpeg, the other .jpg, which are the same "type" of file to Windows (a JPEG).
Thanks for the advises. Apparantly as predicted, 1 of the 2 pictures of the same name are with the extension of .jpg and .jpeg respectively.
As this has not happen when I was using Windows XP, is there anyway in Vista that the settings can be set to avoid the duplicate name? There are tons of files, so it will be a big problem to rename all the extensions.
The files are probably(?) expected to be saved to different folders. If you save them to the same folder, Windows might do that by default to try and give basic file names.
Save to a new folder or make a new folder inside the current one would be my best suggestion.
Is there any third party program involved? For example, are you using a camera's software to save the pictures or just Vista? There could be a few ways to stop it from happening in the future. The files that are already different, you could search your picture directory for the odd extension, then decide if you want to change their extension, put them into a new (sub-) folder or rename them. I am not highly experienced with that (only theory for me ).
Be carefull...Windows is adding the (1) to make the file names unique to protect you The other option is that it might Replace the file with the same name.
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The other option is that it might Replace the file with the same name.
