"\" characters confuse "Folder.subfolders" about files HOT 2 CLOSED

My diagnosis seems to be wrong .. further exploration reveals more complexity.

Removing the offensive files from the above tree doesn't solve the problem, copying the baseDirectory (after removing those files) propagates the problem, but creating a new baseDirectory and creating contained files from scratch doesn't suffer. For now, I'm concluding those \ files make a permanent corruption to that part of the file structure they were contained in.

The specific issue, which Finder and Terminal don't reveal, is that the enumeration of the folders in baseDirectory contains baseDirectory itself and subFolders goes terminally recursive. The usage:

baseFolder.subfolders.recursive.names()

doesn't ever return.

from files.

.. but this problem will 'never' happen because files containing a \ in their names can't be created in the modern era, so I'm closing this and erasing it from my recollection of hours of frustration!

from files.