The command:
does the following things, in sequence:
$((i++)) part 1: save the initial value of i,
$((i++)) part 2: increment the value of i,
$((i++)) part 1: return the initial value of i, and
i=...: assign the returned value to i.
These four steps together assign the initial value of i to i discarding the increment that was performed in step 2.
To get what I think you're trying to do, try changing that line to one of the following:
The first two of these will work with any POSIX-conforming shell. The last three will work in ksh, some versions of bash, and might also work in some other shells.
Furthermore, anytime you use find to get a list of files, you have to assume that any filename allowed by the underlying filesystem might pop us in find's output. You should write your code to assume that a pathname returned by find might contain whitespace or other problematic characters. So, a command like:
(assuming that you intend to remove the # making it a comment at some later time, should instead be written as one of the following:
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