BRU is not showing the real folder names!

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BRU is not showing the real folder names!

Postby Roadhouse » Fri Dec 26, 2025 1:10 pm

Hi.

I've used this software for many years now, and love it so much that I regulary donate to show my appriciation for this great tool.

But today I ran into some errors (not error mesages, but odd errors). I'm using ver. 4.0.1.0.

- I check of 'Subfolders':

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...and it shows this:

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The problem is, that it does not show all subfolders real names:

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If you look in the left pane, you'll se that there are subfolders named "2023.01.03 Vinterferie i Agger DNG" and "2023.01.03 Vinterferie i Agger Mobil" - but they are not shown in the right pane, and therefore I cannot rename them!

It does show the 28 folders in that directory - but it shows wrong names. Here are the folders shown in file explorer - which shows the proper folder names:

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I am in the proces of renaming at least 2500 folders, and today I found out that BRU do not necessarily show the real foldername.

Just to show another example:

Here BRU tells me that there is a folder called "01. Børglum Kloster" ('Name' and 'New Name'). But there's not a folder by that name - and if I right-click on that and choose 'Open Containing Folder' this is what I see - there is no folder by that name:

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The one in top on the shown example (in the folder 'EdTDNG), is OK - but there a no other folder by that name anywhere else.

Am I doing anything wrong - this have never been a problem before?

Unfortunately I have not enabled logging, so I cannot show you a log.

Kind regards,

Frank
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Re: BRU is not showing the real folder names!

Postby TheGhost78 » Fri Dec 26, 2025 5:01 pm

Were you doing other renaming tasks proir to this? Have you refreshed the tree (Ctrl+F5)?
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Re: BRU is not showing the real folder names!

Postby Roadhouse » Fri Dec 26, 2025 9:36 pm

TheGhost78 wrote:Were you doing other renaming tasks proir to this? Have you refreshed the tree (Ctrl+F5)?


Hi Ghost.

Yep, and I uninstalled the software, rebooted my Desktop PC, installed again - but the same thing happened!

BUT I will put this on hold as I experienced that backing up (with FreeFileSync) from my SATA discs to my NAS, also showed a strange behaviour in relation to file naming!

I'll be back :-)
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Re: BRU is not showing the real folder names!

Postby Admin » Sat Dec 27, 2025 4:04 am

Use ViceVersa to backup!
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