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Windows is copying files from a folder that was initially empty when I first copied it.

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When I copy a folder that is empty at first, then I move some files inside the folder, and then I paste the "empty" folder to anywhere else, windows is not copying just the folder that was empty at the beginning but is also copying the new files I added AFTER I copied the folder.Is this normal behaviour? Is the command "Copy" in the windows explorer not really copying the initial state of a directory but rather just "remembering" the path of a folder so when you "paste" it somewhere else is just duplicating everything that is in the file address, not remembering that when I first "copied" it t

 

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