Hi, David. Thank you for confirming the actual behavior. > Please explain how you came to that conclusion. > I did some further tests using the win32 CopyFile() API directly[1] on > Windows10 and observe that both trailing periods and trailing spaces are > trimmed for an exfat destination path. I'm using the native api to investigate the behavior of the filesystem on windows. This time, I verified it using NtCreateFile(). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/ntifs/nf-ntifs-ntcreatefile Cygwin and some tools can also create filenames with a trailing dot. BR T.Kohada