Strange ghost files

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Francisco

Hi, I have an empty directory, but actually there are a
few files in there which windows explorer does not want
to show me, even when -show hidden files- is checked.
Nevertheless, if I type the full file path, I can
actually open those files.

End result...a user is given information about files
which do not visually exist.

Could this be hard drive trash/residues?

As an example, I find, where I previously had a beach
boys music collection and the respective album cover,
that one leftover is actually the folder.jpg thumbnail
image windows embbeded on the folder, to look more user
friendly: "Hey, this is Beach boys folder!"

I have moved my songs to another directory, but this
leftover is still there, as well as a file called
desktop.ini

Well, funny or not, I cannot base my application
behaviour on an inconsistency between .NET directory
contents status reporting and what the User actually sees
in the directory, so please advice me.

Im using plain simple DirectoryInfo and FileInfo objects
and passing all directory contents to my FileInfo
collection, so my code is not the problem.

Thanks,
Francisco
 
Those files are probably system files. I guess by default .Net returns ALL
files in directory, which makes sense. I'm sure there's some way to filter
out hidden/system ones. Now, if it was a Janet Jackson album cover then
maybe half of it would be visible....!
 
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