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AcidRaZor opened this issue May 4, 2025 · 2 comments · Fixed by #17101
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Bug: When folder name contains ".Url" at the end, it tries to open a shortcut #17094

AcidRaZor opened this issue May 4, 2025 · 2 comments · Fixed by #17101

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Description

I work as a software developer, some projects have names like "XYZ.Url" which are folders

Navigating to these folders brings up a "Shortcut cannot be opened" error with an option to delete the shortcut.

Steps To Reproduce

Have a folder called "Whatever.Url"
Try to open it by double-clicking

Files Version

3.9.1.0

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Windows 11 24H2

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Log Files contain no information and I'm not willing to share it as some information contain my name
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Thanks for the report

@yaira2 yaira2 mentioned this issue May 5, 2025
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yaira2 commented May 5, 2025

I included a fix in #17101

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Fix: Fixed issue where folders ending with '.url' couldn't be opened. files-community/Files
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