Thursday, April 28, 2011

Why won't windows explorer sort directories under the 'Temporary ASP.NET Files' directory by name?

When I navigate to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\myfirstproject\202aebd2\f0e764e2\assembly\dl3 in Windows explorer, there are 108 folders with 8 character hexadecimal names. Explorer won't sort this folder by name (or value ). What gives?

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From stackoverflow
  • Windows can make directories backed by other directories. For instance the old-style Temporary Internet Files was backed by 4 separate directories. Knowing this I'd guess that it's sorting each directory individually instead of the aggregate.

    Jeffrey LeCours : Do you know of any tools that would allow me to see which directories are being aggregated? I don't believe I can see this in Procmon/Filemon.

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