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I'm gonna have to ask a friend of mine who went through the upgrade rather than a clean install as well, and see if he can reproduce it. Did you rename the folder to add .old, or did you name it test.old from the get go? What did the properties window say for file type?

It definitely sounds like a glitch, you are correct that something with an extension is a file rather than a folder. There is something in Windows 8 that is assigning extensions to folders, and is treating them as such. The extension becomes hidden and there is no way to access it other than the...

That's mostly true, there aren't many situations in Windows where a folder would gain an extension, and in past versions of Windows adding a .whatever would "change" the extension, but only to the extent of what the properties window says the file type of the folder is. What I've noticed with...

No, none of the conventional methods seem to do anything. You can check and see for yourself by making a new folder and just attaching any extension to it.

I'm not entirely sure where to put this because it's not really related to any problems that I'm having or any broken apps, but more just a usability issue with Explorer itself. Does anyone know how to have folder extensions displayed? I find it a little ridiculous that the upgrade creates a...