[xubuntu-users] Can not rename a file with case change of a letter in Thunar on USB Flash drive

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:09:25 -0700
"Lee Gold" <leegold at operamail.com> wrote:

> 
> In Thunar when I right click a file and do rename. If I just change the
> case of a letter Thunar will say error file already exists. So I can not
> change the case of a file name with Thunar. It does not see upper and
> lower case as different. This seems to happen only with files on a USB
> flash drive.
> I can do it OK browsing my HD with Thunar...
> Thanks. Using ver 1.0.2
> 

Is that drive formatted fat or ext? If it is formatted fat16 or fat32,
it will not see the names as different, since that file system does not
recognize such differences.

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