Capitalisation

[JayCee6828]

Is there a setting anywhere I can change so that when I want to rename a file just by changing a letter to a capital eg 'fred' to 'Fred' it will work first time.

What I do at the moment is rename 'fred' to Ffred' and then rename again to 'Fred'.

If you try doing it in one go it doesn't change the case but just leaves it the same.

Windows 7

[DSTM]

Not to my Knowledge.

If you highlight and rewrite the whole file name it sticks for me first go.

[RandyL]

Or click the text field and change just the first letter. Works everytime too as DSTM said.

[JayCee6828]

Thanks for the suggestions - it would appear that if you do just capitalise one or more words then it does actually change them but doesn't show the change till you close the directory and re-open it.

[DSTM]

You don't have to close and reopen the Directory.

Left click anywhere in open space sets it as a permanent change.

[JayCee6828]

Thanks DSTM but that definitely doesn't work for me, I have just tried it many times and every time I change the case of any letter in a name it does change the display till you click outside the name then it changes back to the original case but after closing and re-opening the directory the change shows.

 

Another odd thing is say the name is 'Prelude', I click to rename it and change the P to a p, it stays as p till you click outside the box when it reverts to P, close and re-open the directory and it changes to p. if after changing it and clicking outside the name you then again click on the name to rename it again then it is shown as what it has been changed to eg Change Prelude to prelude and click outside the box, it changes to Prelude but if you again clic k to rename it shows as prelude.

 

Hope that is clear!!

 

Do you think I have a display option set wrongly somewhere?

[DSTM]

I understand exactly what is happening,however not sure why this is happening.

I am thinking more along the lines of clearing your Browser cache or trying a different Browser.

Browsers can cause odd things like this to happen.

Someone much more knowledgeable than I may have a solution.

[PseFrank]

Are you trying to rename a file or a folder?

 

If it's a file you're trying to rename (Anything with a file extension) .jpg or .docx, etc. Then don't forget to add the file extension.

[Dalo Harkin]

Are you trying to rename a file or a folder?

 

If it's a file you're trying to rename (Anything with a file extension) .jpg or .docx, etc. Then don't forget to add the file extension.

 

File extensions are handled automatically

[Plastic Nev]

One thing I hadn't done was change one letter, I have renamed files, but probably closed it straight after so re-opening would show the change.

So just did an experiment with a photo I have. The title was originally canada. so tried to change to Canada. I saw exactly the same thing and had to leave and go back to the photo album before the change showed up, Must be some strange thing in W7, but at least we know now the change will happen if closing and reopening the library section or directory. Why it is like that, or a cure for it, I have no idea. When I have a bit more time I will do a search and see if any answers are out there.

Nev.

[PseFrank]

File extensions are handled automatically

 

 

My point was Dalo, that if you highlight a file and then select Rename this file...and then just type a name without adding the file extension, you will then get this...

 

http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb356/PseFrank/Photoshop%20Edits/Renamewarning.jpg

 

At least that's how it is in Windows XP.

[Plastic Nev]

Now that doesn't happen in W7 the extension is kept. Maybe part of the reason why it is reluctant to allow a name change perhaps.

[RandyL]

I think maybe because in 7 the default is to Hide extensions for known file types unless you change it in Control Panel>Folder Options>View

[JayCee6828]

The file extension business is a red herring as it does allow the name change, it just doesn't display the change till you close and re-open the directory.

 

More testing shows another oddity in that in some of m directories if I capitalise an .odt file it changes immediately in the display but in other directories an .odt file doesn't show till you close and re-open the directory - the same thing happens with .doc files, some directories show the change immediately but others don't. I can't make this happen to any set pattern so it is probably impossible to sort out and will have to be put down to some quirk of the system.

[Plastic Nev]

Thanks for the reminder about folder options Randy, it has given me a clue regarding a different issue that JayCee has. However ticking show hidden files and folders didn't answer it.

Nev.

[JayCee6828]

Her's something very strange I have just discovered by chance; as I said above capitalising, or vice versa, a file or directory name does not display the changed letter till the folder containing the file or folder is closed and opened again.

 

But... This only happens on my drive C in the machine; I have an external drive E and the change takes immediate effect every time on there!

 

I don't suppose this throws up any clues about what is happening here??

[Goku]

Hello JayCee. Can you please try refreshing the window after a name change and see what results does it yield?

 

-- Goku

[JayCee6828]

Hi Goku,

 

To summarise:

 

assume you have a file called Fred on drive C, an internal 300GB IDE drive, and also on Drive E, an external 1TB drive connected by USB.

 

Drive C

rename Fred as fred and it shows as fred until you click in the window when it returns to showing Fred; close and open the window and it then shows correctly as fred. This applies to any change of case anywhere in the name eg change Fred to fReD and it remains as Fred until the window is refreshed.

 

Drive E

rename Fred as fred and it stays as fred when you click anywhere in the window.

 

This is using windows 7 but that may be a red herring as my brother has tried the same thing and his does not act like this, any changes of case he makes are made immediately, as mine are on drive E.

 

It is not really worth expending time on this as it does not effect the functionality of the OS - it just seemed such a strange thing when I first noticed it and althoiugh one person above appears to get the same effect, most repondents don't seem effected.

[RandyL]

Actually I do get that effect on Windows 7 if I create the folder in a directory (like Documents) but not if I create it on the desktop. I never used to get it on previous operating systems.

 

I can only assume that this is a Windows 7 function when a directory is in use. I suppose Microsoft needs to rewrite the base code of the OS. :)

 

Like you said, "What will be will be".