Is this a little bug in Windows 7?
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
I believe this odd behavior has to do with how Windows Explorer caches information. Forcing a full refresh usually shows the edit. At least in my experience. (On iPad, so no functional spell check. And I hate the iPad 'keyboard'.)
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
supernorb wrote:
make the OS work properly as I want.
Though sometimes, work properly and work as you want, might not be the same ;P
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right - Henry Ford Emmanuel Medina Lopez
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I have run into this myself, though I just tried it and it worked on my Windows 7 computer. Not sure why it'd happen on one computer and not another. The file I was working with is on the root of my C: drive, which is formatted as NTFS. Is your file on a FAT32 drive (perhaps an external one)?
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It let me rename "A.txt" to "a.txt". There may be more conditions required to reproduce it.
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I believe this odd behavior has to do with how Windows Explorer caches information. Forcing a full refresh usually shows the edit. At least in my experience. (On iPad, so no functional spell check. And I hate the iPad 'keyboard'.)
Gryphons Are Awesome! Gryphons Are Awesome!
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
No, it's not a bug. Windows doesn't (didn't) differentiate upper-case and lower-case names. It can be enabled in the registry. Has something to do with POSIX compliance as I recall. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\ Value Name: ObCaseInsensitive Type: DWORD Value: 0 There's also a bug when installing/uninstalling .Net framework 2.0 which affect case insensitivity setting.
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supernorb wrote:
make the OS work properly as I want.
Though sometimes, work properly and work as you want, might not be the same ;P
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right - Henry Ford Emmanuel Medina Lopez
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
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I had noticed this in Windows XP. But Windows 7 lets me do it, not sure why it doesn't allow you to do it. EDIT: Did you upgrade from Win XP ?
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I believe this odd behavior has to do with how Windows Explorer caches information. Forcing a full refresh usually shows the edit. At least in my experience. (On iPad, so no functional spell check. And I hate the iPad 'keyboard'.)
Gryphons Are Awesome! Gryphons Are Awesome!
Yep, just verified this on my Weven 32 & 64 machines. Rename a file and the capitalized letter would return to small. Hit F5 and they reflect the change.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
supernorb wrote:
maleDefault
Try sprinkling a little ground up Cialis in the USB port.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
This is a well known "feature" of Windows from well before Win7.
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This is a well known "feature" of Windows from well before Win7.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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supernorb wrote:
maleDefault
Try sprinkling a little ground up Cialis in the USB port.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Sorry, I don't get what you want to mean, I'm not native English speaker, I don't like idioms (but like learning them) or anything similar. Thanks!
Ah, sorry about that. Male Default => premature or lacking. Cialis is a treatment for some disorders.
Will Rogers never met me.
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If it's by design, I really admire those ones who designed it that way. In fact, I bet there are many others who don't know about this 'feature' in Windows. (I've used Windows for 10 years but I just knew this a few days ago by accident.
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I've inadvertently discovered this when trying renaming my file from 'maledefault' to 'maleDefault' and I couldn't rename it. Just capitalize the letter d, I think there is no case-sensitive string comparison here and tried renaming 'maledefault' to a different one (anything except Maledefault, mAledefault, MAledefault,...) then renamed that one to 'maleDefault'. Wow, I had to rename it indirectly. Is that a little annoying? Or there is some option which I don't know, to make the OS work properly as I want. Here is an instruction for renaming lowercase letters to uppercase letters (or vice versa) in Windows 7 (I'm not sure about others): To rename a -> A , you can't do it normally, just follow the following steps: 1. Rename a -> b (or c, d, or any other but a and A). 2. Rename b -> A 3. Enjoy. :laugh: Any idea?
Windows has been "case preserving, case insensitive" by design from start (unless you enable case sensitivity to be able to run POSIX apps that require it). The problem here is the UI (Explorer). Renaming a file like you want to via the API works fine, but Explorer doesn't understand that the name has change, and ignores the rename. It has come and gone and come again - like someone said - it works in Windows 7. Seems like someone missed checking the fix in to the right repo...