[Typo3] Problem with a directory ending with a "."

Peter Klein peter at umloud.dk
Sun Dec 4 17:28:21 CET 2005

Hi Juha. You could try installing the Quixplorer extension

Using that, you can rename,edit,delete files directly from the Typo3 

Peter Klein / Umloud Untd.

"Juha Sipinen" <juha.sipinen at kolumbus.fi> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2973.1133564484.24100.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
I created a directory inside TYPO3 (File -> Filelist), a directory that ends
with a period (.)

The directory is "Milk_Inc."

Now the problems are:

1. I can't upload files into it because it says "Target was not a

2. I can't rename it because "Target
"/var/www/public_html/fileadmin/Milk_Inc" was neither a directory nor a
Note that the error message displays it WITHOUT the "." character.  However,
my FTP program proves the directory is there with the "." character.

3. I can't delete it inside TYPO3 because "Target seemed not to be a
directory! (Shouldn't happen here!)"

4. I can't remove it with my FTP program because TYPO3 software now owns the
rights to the "Milk_Inc." directory.

So, what can I do to get rid of the directory?  There should've been a
warning NOT to make a directory ending with a period.  There can be "."
characters in the middle of the directory name but NOT as the last

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