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AskDirectory in Windows 7 Ignores New Folder

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Question:

I have a script which works fine in all versions of Windows except Windows 7. When the user clicks 'make new folder' from the AskDirectory dialogue then renames the new folder and selects the newly named folder, the dialogue returns 'New Folder' to the script rather than returning the name of the selected folder.

Answer:

Interesting. We were was able to reproduce this on Windows 7.

This problems is more or less a Windows 7 bug, because it is caused by an undocumented change to the behavior of the Shell COM API in Windows 7. At this time we do not have a workaround for this change in behavior short of completely rewriting the WinBatch folder browser function.

In the meanwhile here is some workaround code, that seems to work on Windows 7: http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/nftechsupt.web+WinBatch/UDF~-~UDS~Library/Files~and~Directories+udfAskDirectory.txt

Note: Select the folder you want to create the subfolder then right click and select 'new'. 

Article ID:   W18435

Filename:   AskDirectory in Windows 7 Ignores New Folder.txt
File Created: 2014:07:18:09:51:40
Last Updated: 2014:07:18:09:51:40