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John G.6
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Why does the Uppercase Letters of my file name change to Lowercase
I have a file name "Northern California" that is shared to various people. It was automatically changed to "northern california" Why did the capital "N" and capital "C" change to lower case?
Richard P.
11 years agoSuper User alumni
It would seem that its a long running bug with Dropbox, one which the team have tiptoed around actually admitting exists - the common claim is that Dropbox is case insensitive, which is true enough but it should be case preserving.
There have been many questions on the Dropbox forums over the years about mysteriously changing filename cases depending on how the file is accessed (web, API, desktop, mobile etc).
In summary, there is no explanation, none was given before, I doubt one will be forthcoming now :)
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