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Creating a folder and a file with the same name in a folder is not allowed. The reason is that a folder is a special type of a file, i.e it's a file including the file mode bit d.
Also see e.g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_file_types

Thus, this does not work
touch ~/Downloads/test
mkdir ~/Downloads/test

an nor does this
mkdir ~/Downloads/test
cat > ~/Downloads/test
Ctrl+D

Marking the bug invalid.

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Folder and File of same name cannot coexist in a directory

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  In the Downloads folder, I create 2 objects:
  - a folder called test
  - a file called test

  The second creation fails with the following error message:

  The item could not be renamed.
  The name "test" is already used in this folder.  Please use a different name.

  The attached screenshot from Ubuntu 12.04 shows the issue persists to
  this day.  Is this a bug or a desired feature?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-37.81-generic 2.6.32.49+drm33.21
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jan  2 13:12:39 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nautilus

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