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Multiple files with same name in Windows 2000

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jonny13

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A co-worker has a java app that parses .txt files and pulls out info and then creates new .txt files elsewhere on the network. Recently, we got some errors and now there are a few instances where 3 files have the EXACT same name, same case, everything but the modified date is the same.

Here is the craziest part, if you modify info in one file and then open up the other two, they have the change already in it.

I didn't even think this would be possible and it doesn't make any sense to me. He is working on the java code to see why it would even attempt to do this, but wouldn't you think Windows would throw a fit this?

Any ideas?
 
My only guess off-hand would be a problem with corruption in the FAT or equivalent.

Have you tried running Scandisk yet? What does it report?
 
Its actually a shared drive on a Novell server which we don't have physical access to.

We can't recreate the situation in Java as it just throws the usual errors about a file already existing. The files have different Modified Dates which is how we first spotted them. The fine names have timestamps so we noticed the file names weren't matching the modified dates on a few files. The modified dates do appear to correlate with the Java app acting strange, but it continues writing duplicate files.

So, we are all puzzled.
 
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