I have renamed a folder in windows, but the old name is still there, and it causes problems

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I renamed an old 'desktop' folder to '8 Jun 2016-Nov 2018'. Here is the properties of the folder. You can see that the name is '8 Jun 2016-Nov 2018'But when you look at the sharing tab, it shows the old name 'Desktop':Also, when I copy and paste folders, Windows explorer goes by the OLD, hidden names. So if I copy a folder named 'Desktop' over into the folder that contains '8 Jun 2016-Nov 2018', it will try to combine the two folders, because it believes they have the same name, even though I have changed one of them.Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can truly change the name o

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