Ah, WTF for sure now.
Having restored my file associations I looked more closely at what the Windows Shell does with all those apparent directories that have no files in them.
1. It turns out *every *one* that has no content ends up being an unrecognized form of 0-length file. That leads to treatment of the following as empty files:
Configurations2/images/Bitmaps (no final / of course)
Configurations2/floater
Configurations2/menubar
Configurations2/popupmenu
Configurations2/progressbar
Configurations2/statusbar
Configurations2/toobar
2. For bonus credit, I *opened* Configurations2/accelerator/current.xml (which auto-launched IE8). Guess what?
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and
then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
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XML document must have a top level element. Error
processing resource 'file:///C:/Documents and Settings/orcmid/Local Setti...
Makes sense to me, or as we once found useful to say, "Garbage in, Garbage out."
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 17:30
To: 'Hanssens Bart'; 'David LeBlanc';
Cc: 'Cornelis Frank'
Subject: RE: [office] RE: Directories in Zip packages
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I see nothing here that would account for that except for a bug in how the shell decides not to make folders when there are no contents (notice in the image that Windows does not recognize the other empty folder entries, but this one seems to have confused things, maybe by being one "/" too far).
- Dennis
I am really annoyed that PKZip stole the Zip association from Windows and the uninstall simply left there being no Zip association at all. I will have to do a blankety-blank system restore to get it back. Oh, goody.
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