... so why not?

.... 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" wrote in message
...
Ha!

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 wrote:
You may be right Harry. Just looked at my old WinMe laptop and there
are 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" wrote in message
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"Mart" wrote in message
...
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.


Sorry I can't really help any further, don't know if Mike or Noel
can offer anything. Best of luck.

Mart


"caroloyl" wrote in message
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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" wrote in message
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IIRC - I *think* this can sometimes happen due to attribute
issues in WinMe which *may* be linked to the following KB
articles:- "Start Menu or Shortcut Items Appear Capitalized After
Restoration"
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;261690
"System
Restore May Not Properly Restore Attributes to Files"
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;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" wrote in message
...
I have a couple of Me conundrums going on--this first:

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 :-)