Text Case Problem
caroloyl
In April I had a new computer built to boot either Millennium or XP. Both
OS are on appropriate partitions (C=FAT32; G=NTFS) on a 160 GB drive.
When I use Windows Explorer in Me (but not XP) I find all folder and file
names with 8 or fewer characters converted to all caps (DOS). Longer names
appear with initial caps or all lower case letters just as I named them.
The admixture of naming formats looks chaotic and the DOS version is
inappropriate for files I upload to my websites. Is there any way I can
force Millennium's WinExp to use mixed-case and lower case letters only for
every name?
Thanks for hanging in here for diehards like me :-)
Mart
which *may* be linked to the following KB articles:-
"Start Menu or Shortcut Items Appear Capitalized After Restoration"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;261690
"System Restore May Not Properly Restore Attributes to Files"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;267160
(Note the reference to 'case' in the Symptoms and Workaround sections)
Interesting to note in the Status section that "Microsoft has confirmed that
this is a problem ...." and the 'Rename' workaround still appears to be the
current fix.
Also, I seem to recall that it was once suggested on these pages, that the
way
WinMe handles long filenames, might also have an effect on this phenomenon.
However, there's no mention of this potential problem in "How Windows
Generates 8.3 File Names from Long File Names"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142982/en-us
Sorry if my response isn't very helpful.
Mart
"caroloyl" <caro...@gmail-expungethis.com> wrote in message
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caroloyl
Hi Mart--
Thanks for the--yes--helpful links! I did use System Restore once on the
new Millennium installation a few days after I got the dual booter ... and
I did try renaming a few of Me's files manually. Unfortunately the
renaming didn't stick, but then I may have done it with XP :-b Will try
the renaming again from within Me.
carol
"Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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Mart
Thanks for the feedback carol, but I suspect the random case-change issue
was/is a "feature" of WinMe. I recall just 'living with it' on my old WinMe
boxes and I think that was the general consensus when I first saw it raised
in these news group pages quite some years ago.
Sorry I can't really help any further, don't know if Mike or Noel can offer
anything. Best of luck.
Mart
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webster72n
"Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the feedback carol, but I suspect the random case-change issue
> was/is a "feature" of WinMe. I recall just 'living with it' on my old
> WinMe boxes and I think that was the general consensus when I first saw it
> raised in these news group pages quite some years ago.
It must to be a local problem, Mart, I don't encounter it on my machine.
<H>.
Mart
quite a substantial number of upper-case file names, some of which I do
remember were once in lower-case. But not tried (nor intend to try <g>)
Renaming them.
Mart
"webster72n" <webst...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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RockyTSquirrel
I've noticed some file name capping on this ME machine, but usually only
when I'm working on up/dwn loading web pages..
It's a habit now to just check and rename on the server any and all changes
that take place..
As for the onboard HD's I've only seen a very few changes on the C drive
and never any on the D drive..
RTS
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webster72n
"RockyTSquirrel" <gafa@/nospam/usa.com> wrote in message
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> Mart & Webster72n,
> I've noticed some file name capping on this ME machine, but usually
> only
> when I'm working on up/dwn loading web pages..
> It's a habit now to just check and rename on the server any and all
> changes
> that take place..
> As for the onboard HD's I've only seen a very few changes on the C drive
> and never any on the D drive..
Never did any uploading, but downloading is no problem either.
Should it ever happen to me, I'll tolerate it in Mart's fashion, if he can
do it, so can I <g>. <H>.
Tarquin T. Shuttlecock
I don't *think* I ever posted this tardily before, so why not? Herb
Trousers' 'The Rename' runs on 9x and is excellent for renaming en masse.
For instance, you can change case to first letter of each word capitalised.
The could change said case of every file on C: (bar, I suppose, in use
stuff) by starting in C: and selecting sub-folders, then every file in the
subsequent list. Course it would probably take a *long* time, not least due
to obvious hardware limitations on a box still running Me!
Tarquin T. Shuttlecock
Mart
> .... Course it would probably take a *long* time,
Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit.
Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's comment :-
>>>>> .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick,
>>>>> carol
Making it a bit of a pointless exercise, especially in my case where it made
absolutely no real odds to me what case it was in. Just lived with it.
HT
"Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" <jacobdd...@yeahmyarse.bot> wrote in message
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Tarquin T. Shuttlecock
>> ... so why not?
>
>> .... Course it would probably take a *long* time,
>
> Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit.
Only a loony would actually want to change all filenames. The point was that
you can even do that. Or - you can view all files but just select those all
in uppercase. In fact you can do just about anything you feel like with the
proviso that renaming system files rather than simply changing case is a bad
idea.
>
> Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's
> comment :-
>>>>>> .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick,
>>>>>> carol
There is always a reason for that. And it will be relatively easy to fix.
But if one wishes to put it down to, say, God's will, fair enough...
AB
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Tarquin T. Shuttlecock
installing Office 2010 the smellfecker doesn't do a particularly good job -
though I suppose that it works at all in OE is a surprise.
P'raps should try Windows Live Mail (again).
I do believe Grace Slick just sang "like an over-the-moon cow"! ???
Joan Archer wrote:
> With a name like Tarquin what do you expect <g>
>
>
Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke
And my tea's cold!
Should have stuck to coffee. Perhaps that's why I don't see an emoticon?
How much that the 25th is totally devoid of snow, is damp and grey and not
even very cold?
(That was my signature!)
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How much that the 25th is totally devoid of snow, is damp and grey and not
even very cold?
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Joan Archer
going to finish my last drop of proper coffee from the filter machine <g>
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Tarquin T. Shuttlecock
again, but that shouldn't matter, it's worked for years) and I'm still
getting what I got earlier, that is the good ol' blank square with the red
x! I'll have to read up on that one I guess. Been a long time since that was
a regular on winme general (I expect. For all I know people were asking
about it three months ago!) and I never did learnt the solution, never
having suffered it myself.
Just realised I don't have my sig in OE!
Joan Archer wrote:
> You wont get them if you're reading the posts in Plain Text silly
> <g>and I'm going to finish my last drop of proper coffee from the
> filter machine <g>
>
Mike M
content in HTML e-mail".
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Mike
Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke
> Tools | Options | Security and UNcheck "Block images and other
> external content in HTML e-mail".
>
What I find really hard to believe is that I've had that one unchecked
(therefore) for, what, the last I don't know how many years? And reading in
plain text only also unchecked? I can scarcely remember a time when I didn't
use OE-Quotefix with OE. I'm flabbergasted. My flabber has never been so
gasted, as I believe Frankie Howerd would have said!
So, y'okay Mike?
Shane
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Mike M
who use it as a newsreader and post messages to Usenet. :-)
How are you keeping? Myself, so so thanks. I'm becoming increasingly lazy
although I suspect I had a head start on most. <even bigger grin>
Hopefully I'll see you around for the next few days. This place needs
livening up before MS try to kill it for good. I now off to try and finish
digitising the VHS tape I'm working on. Video keeps going out of synch, I
don't know whether it's the age of the tape or the VCR, and I have to keep
stopping, resyncing the video and then restarting. Looks as if I'm going to
have a lot of editing to do to stitch the parts together.
--
Mike
Joan Archer
Lets hope they don't drop this one Mike although I know they are trying to
get away from the NG's and just have online forums instead, that's what
they've done with Windows 7 group, if you want an NG you have to go to the
alt. groups to get it other wise go to the answers forum.
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"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
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Shane
> increasingly lazy although I suspect I had a head start on most.
> <even bigger grin>
<g> Well I 'completed' the diet. Couldn't quite get to 11st 8lb so settled
for approx. 11st 11lb and have stayed within a couple of pounds of that
more-or-less ever since, which is the lightest I've been since I was at
school. Now I can eat with a bit of abandon again, but find I don't really
want to. So that is good; like the smoking, I feel like I'll never go down
that route again.
Now I recall the last time we spoke was about the Be connection statistics.
It has been essentially the same ever since, but I switched to the
faster/less stable profile (or whatever they call it!) maybe a month ago,
and went to OpenDNS (with redirection turned off), and updated the router
firmware (partly to maybe better protect against the appalling vulnerability
Paul Mutton discovered, but more to attempt to fix an issue that has
developed, that resembles a DNS failure - hence OpenDNS - but actually seems
to be the router dropping the connection if left on for a few hours!) So I
just raised a ticket today. The router was okay (-ish) at first, but now you
have to cycle the power off and back on every few hours (and to avoid the
'watched kettle' effect, reboot the computer).
>
> Hopefully I'll see you around for the next few days. This place needs
> livening up before MS try to kill it for good. I now off to try and
> finish digitising the VHS tape I'm working on. Video keeps going out
> of synch, I don't know whether it's the age of the tape or the VCR,
> and I have to keep stopping, resyncing the video and then restarting.
> Looks as if I'm going to have a lot of editing to do to stitch the
> parts together.
>
Hope you've finished by now. Sounds like a nightmare! I feel about VHS the
way I feel about PAYG, CRT etc, so glad they're no longer part of my daily
routine! Though I did have something of a treasure trove at one time of day.
So long ago now its like a different life. I should have known you'd have a
VCR still. I could have sent you my Lightning documentaries. As it is they
went to the PDSA shop in town (along with every book and DVD I figured I'd
never be getting out again. Though I'd have liked to see the Lightning tapes
again, I just figure I'll never have a VCR again).