I've encountered a weird kind of issue in Windows 10:
In a mapped drive, there are a bunch of system folders (16 to be exact). I have projects in a couple folders; one of them called, say Folder A. The problem with this is the system folders all begin with . and so they sort first alphabetically, and I always have show hidden files enabled for various reasons. The best I could do was start the folders with underscores so that they would not appear even further beneath the hidden folders than they needed to.
It occurred to me today I might try adding a dot in front of the underscore to bring these folders up to the top, which can be handy in Open Dialogs where scrolling is otherwise required to get to them. When I did this, Windows 10 automatically hid the folder. I could still see it, but the folder icon was lighter as it is for hidden folders. I went to Properties and the Hidden checkbox was checked. I unchecked and closed out. The folder was still hidden. I went back to Properties and it was as if I had never been there.
Is this a bug in Windows 10 or desired behavior? How can I unhide the folders? It's not the end of the world, because I see them, but I don't want them to be hidden. Does Windows force folders beginning with . to be hidden?
For what it's worth, I tried doing this on my main PC, running Windows XP SP3. I run into a different problem, because I can create a folder beginning with an underscore, and even add a . in the middle, but if I try adding a . to the beginning of the folder name, Windows XP just gets mad and basically says that's not a valid rename. So it seems the ability to do this is new to newer versions of Windows.
That being said, I can see the folders in the same drive in Windows XP (the ones beginning with a .). I tried unhiding the folders I created, and I was not able to do this in Windows XP, either.
What is causing the issue here? Windows? The file server? And how can I rename the folders such that they show up at the top but are not hidden?
