Is this a little bug in Windows 7?
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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...
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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'.)
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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?
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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?
It's not a bug it's a feature... in case you may have wrongly pressed the Shift or Caps Lock key... ;P
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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?
When I was a kid, we had to make all our file names in upper case, and that's the way we liked it! :) This "feature" was brought to you by the wonders of legacy compatability. DOS only did upper case in the beginning. Then later, lower case was allowed, and at that point it was decided to not confuse users too much by allowing case to matter in file names. Today... Unix, on the other hand, was case sensitive from day one.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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When I was a kid, we had to make all our file names in upper case, and that's the way we liked it! :) This "feature" was brought to you by the wonders of legacy compatability. DOS only did upper case in the beginning. Then later, lower case was allowed, and at that point it was decided to not confuse users too much by allowing case to matter in file names. Today... Unix, on the other hand, was case sensitive from day one.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
I had to teach people coding in a language (REXX) where lower case had become acceptable and advisable for legibility, and suggested to my students that they should use the small letters, because they used less storage space than the large letters. ;-)
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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.
"It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan That's what machines are for. Got a problem? Sleep on it.
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The OP wasn't aware of this when it was originally posted. So since then he's modified his message, which makes my original reply look redundant.
"It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan That's what machines are for. Got a problem? Sleep on 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?
It has been like that since the Windows 95 days
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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.
By the way, since English isn't your first language, when Richard says 3.1 days, he isn't talking about last week, but when MS introduced Windows version 3.1. Actually, if I remember correctly you could change the case when requesting a file in Dos 1.0 days. At that point in time it was REALLY strict on file naming conventions. I don't recall ever just changing the case of the name of a file, so I wouldn't have noticed that difference before either and I'm also assuming that you were looking at the listing on Windows explorer instead of opening a cmd file and executing dir.
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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?
no. after renaming just press F5 and the name will be refreshed