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Why does the Uppercase Letters of my file name change to lower case
I know this has been posted before and appaerently closed without resolution but here it is again. I have users that use Dropbox via the dropbox app on a server that we are using as a file share. And it seemd that onlt two of the users have the problem. We have long filenames but still with int the 260 charactor limit imposed by the file GODS, but only some of the files are affected. What is happening is that files are being renamed in all lowercase for no apparent reason other then just cuase. Can someone please help with this so I can let the users know they are indeed NOT crazy and this is behind the scenes unwanted magic.
- Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Well as I said it is a file share on a server that has the app installed. They see the names via they file explorer on there machines that have the file shared mapped. They do not have the app as it is on the server. So this is the problem and they use windows 10 and the file share is on a Windows sever 2012 r2. So is that enough info to go from and yes when you look via the webpage the file names are still changed and in lower case.
- Lusil
I am THE ONLY MEMBER of folders within Dropbox/Apps/[whatever foldername is here]
I changed the name of the folder and on my PC it shows as the new folder name.
All other PC's still see the old name of the folder.
How can I fix it so all PC's see the same folder name?
NOTE: This worked perfectly fine, when all PC's used Windows 7.
However, after updating to Windows 10 this month, this issue is present.
Dropbox version: 91.4.548
LAN-sync off or on has no impact.
How to reproduce?
1. Install Dropbox on 2 PC's in same network.
2. Login with same admin emailaddress on both pc's.
3. Change a foldername on 1 PC going directly to the path (in my case: C:\Users\SEK\Dropbox\Apps\BatchResizer2\[Changing This Foldername So It Shows With Capitals])
4. Check on other PC if name is changed (it's not).
I'm using an app which shows in Dropbox Settings:
App has access to Dropbox: App-folder.
See folder name changed on this PC: https://i.imgur.com/diPEy07.png
See folder name NOT changed on other PC: https://i.imgur.com/10CIeqt.png- Daphne
Hi there dummy, I hope you're well today!
I moved your post here so that I can ask you to check out Lusil's detailed post above on why this is occurring and how you can force the change in folder names.
Let me know if this helps!
No this does not help Daphne since I'm not using a Server.
Also it's not ONLY about Case sensitive, it's about renaming a folder called
''polo 9994'' to ''9994'' for example.
You could have seen this in the pictures I showed in my topic.And it won't show this change on the other computer.
When I do it on this other computer, and look at this computer, same issue.I opt to move my topic to stand-alone , since this ain't related. Thank you.
