Zystkmt

up vote 191 down vote favorite 61 The folder name was listed in File Explorer with just plain four dots .... . When I tried opening it, I came into some kind of endless rabbit hole loop where I opened the exact same folder again and again - I could do this endlessly. Showing the path like C:ExamplePath.................... , etc. It was hanging my TypeScript compilation in one specific project. It took me more than a year before I found this folder and its related problems, because it was rooted deeply in nested folders. I never expected an issue like this, so I never looked for it. I couldn't delete the folder the normal way because of the special name. In the end, I could remove it by using the command line and deleting the parent folder with rd /s /q path . Afterward, I tried to create the folder again but was unable t...