Help Folders with Ellipses

[Palmdroid]

AndroidOS seems to have a problem with folders that begin with an ellipsis. Granted there aren't that many. From my entire music collection I have only two albums that begin with one:
...And Justice for All (by Metallica)
and
...Honor Is All We Know (by Rancid)
I've had "...And Justice for All" for a while now on my LG G5. When I first put that album on. It would not show up. I then edited the folder name to get rid of the ellipsis. I don't remember what I did after that, but now it shows up. I just recently downloaded "...Honor Is All We Know". I'm having the same problems. The album won't show up in the Music app. So I did the same thing as before. I edited the folder to get rid of the ellipsis. The music app is still not finding the folder. I've tried rebooting the phone. And I've tried doing a "Force Stop" for the app. When I go to File Manager, and change to my SD card where all my mp3s are, I see the folder there. Is there a way to force the Music app to do a rebuild?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Depends on the music app you're using. Using PowerAmp you'd go to Settings > Floders and Library > then tap on Rescan. Which music player are you using

 

[Palmdroid]

I'm using the default "Music" app that came with the phone.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Don't do that.

 

[svim]

There's a general computing/coding issue. A common practice (Android, iOS, OS X/MacOS, Windows, BSD, etc.) is for a file named with leading period (aka dot) to be 'hidden'. Also, working in a CLI, using two periods will take you back to the next level of the current directory. By using an ellipsis, a punctuation element, as the leading 'character' to name a file you've created a situation where there's something of an internal conflict between the app in use and the OS itself. Use a file manager that will allow hidden files/folders to correct what you tried to rename.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_file_and_hidden_directory