Deleting a folder ending in a dot, actually deletes a different folder

[Wendelstein7]

Type: Bug

I accidentally created a folder ending with a dot, say src/app/folder., when the directory src/app/folder (without a trailing dot) also existed. The folder ending with a dot was an accident, so I tried to delete it. However, when deleting the folder src/app/folder. in the GUI, VSCode actually deletes the different folder src/app/folder!

While other software (Including Microsoft Windows Explorer) also have trouble deleting folders ending with dots, I think it is good if VSCode also takes this into account.

Despite a folder ending in a dot being a possible illegal path, the fact that these folders can be created and can exist, I think that VSCode should check for these situations to prevent deleting a different folder from the one selected. For me it caused me to lose some uncommitted progress.

In this case, how the folder was created does not matter for the issue VSCode is having, but you can read more about that on the Issue I created for Angular-CLI.

I hope this helps!

VS Code version: Code 1.96.2 (fabdb6a, 2024-12-19T10:22:47.216Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
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