Re: can't see files in compressed folder

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From: Alex (nospam_at_spam.spam)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:11:38 +0100

Yes, and removing the comma has fixed the problem.

Is there a patch expected for this do you know ?

Do you know when this bug crept in, because by all accounts things were
working fine until I patched this guys machine several weeks ago - but you
can never trust users to be factually correct ;)

"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Any of the filenames got commas in them. 

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"Alex" <nospam@spam.spam> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a compressed 'zip' folder that's been sent to me and I can't see
the
> files in it on my windows XP machine.
>
> If I scan it for viruses using McAfee on my machine, it see's and scans
and
> lists the files just fine.
> If i use winzip on another machine I can see the files just fine.
> If I use windows 2003 server to open the file then it see's the files just
> fine i.e. more up to date version of compressed folders.
>
> My problem is no Windows XP machines are able to see the contents of the
> Compressed 'Zip' folder.  Everyone I've tried it on is fully patched.
I've
> never experienced this problem before and can see the contents of other
> compressed 'zip' folders and create them just fine.
>
> I'm worried that my users may receive more files like this from the source
> they got them from and seeing that win2k3 opens it just fine I wondered if
> there was any fix available?
>
> tia
> alex
>
>

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