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Text Case Problem
Mart wrote:
... so why not? .... Course it would probably take a *long* time, Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit. Only a loony would actually want to change all filenames. The point was that you can even do that. Or - you can view all files but just select those all in uppercase. In fact you can do just about anything you feel like with the proviso that renaming system files rather than simply changing case is a bad idea. Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's comment :- .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick, carol There is always a reason for that. And it will be relatively easy to fix. But if one wishes to put it down to, say, God's will, fair enough... AB 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 ... "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 ... 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 ... 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 :-) |
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With a name like Tarquin what do you expect g
-- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in message ... Mart wrote: ... so why not? .... Course it would probably take a *long* time, Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit. Only a loony would actually want to change all filenames. The point was that you can even do that. Or - you can view all files but just select those all in uppercase. In fact you can do just about anything you feel like with the proviso that renaming system files rather than simply changing case is a bad idea. Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's comment :- .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick, carol There is always a reason for that. And it will be relatively easy to fix. But if one wishes to put it down to, say, God's will, fair enough... AB |
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Test Case Pogram
I'm not getting emoticons, Joan! (with OE-Quotefix). And in fact since
installing Office 2010 the smellfecker doesn't do a particularly good job - though I suppose that it works at all in OE is a surprise. P'raps should try Windows Live Mail (again). I do believe Grace Slick just sang "like an over-the-moon cow"! ??? Joan Archer wrote: With a name like Tarquin what do you expect g "Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in message ... Mart wrote: ... so why not? .... Course it would probably take a *long* time, Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit. Only a loony would actually want to change all filenames. The point was that you can even do that. Or - you can view all files but just select those all in uppercase. In fact you can do just about anything you feel like with the proviso that renaming system files rather than simply changing case is a bad idea. Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's comment :- .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick, carol There is always a reason for that. And it will be relatively easy to fix. But if one wishes to put it down to, say, God's will, fair enough... AB |
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No, still no emoticon.
And my tea's cold! Should have stuck to coffee. Perhaps that's why I don't see an emoticon? How much that the 25th is totally devoid of snow, is damp and grey and not even very cold? (That was my signature!) "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... With a name like Tarquin what do you expect g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in message ... Mart wrote: ... so why not? .... Course it would probably take a *long* time, Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit. Only a loony would actually want to change all filenames. The point was that you can even do that. Or - you can view all files but just select those all in uppercase. In fact you can do just about anything you feel like with the proviso that renaming system files rather than simply changing case is a bad idea. Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's comment :- .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick, carol There is always a reason for that. And it will be relatively easy to fix. But if one wishes to put it down to, say, God's will, fair enough... AB |
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Ah, so!
-- How much that the 25th is totally devoid of snow, is damp and grey and not even very cold? "Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in message ... No, still no emoticon. And my tea's cold! Should have stuck to coffee. Perhaps that's why I don't see an emoticon? How much that the 25th is totally devoid of snow, is damp and grey and not even very cold? (That was my signature!) "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... With a name like Tarquin what do you expect g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in message ... Mart wrote: ... so why not? .... Course it would probably take a *long* time, Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit. Only a loony would actually want to change all filenames. The point was that you can even do that. Or - you can view all files but just select those all in uppercase. In fact you can do just about anything you feel like with the proviso that renaming system files rather than simply changing case is a bad idea. Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's comment :- .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick, carol There is always a reason for that. And it will be relatively easy to fix. But if one wishes to put it down to, say, God's will, fair enough... AB |
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You wont get them if you're reading the posts in Plain Text silly gand I'm
going to finish my last drop of proper coffee from the filter machine g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in message ... No, still no emoticon. And my tea's cold! Should have stuck to coffee. Perhaps that's why I don't see an emoticon? How much that the 25th is totally devoid of snow, is damp and grey and not even very cold? (That was my signature!) "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... With a name like Tarquin what do you expect g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in message ... Mart wrote: ... so why not? .... Course it would probably take a *long* time, Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit. Only a loony would actually want to change all filenames. The point was that you can even do that. Or - you can view all files but just select those all in uppercase. In fact you can do just about anything you feel like with the proviso that renaming system files rather than simply changing case is a bad idea. Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's comment :- .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick, carol There is always a reason for that. And it will be relatively easy to fix. But if one wishes to put it down to, say, God's will, fair enough... AB |
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Text Case Problem
But I wasn't at first Joan! And I just switched back (mind, I am in OE
again, but that shouldn't matter, it's worked for years) and I'm still getting what I got earlier, that is the good ol' blank square with the red x! I'll have to read up on that one I guess. Been a long time since that was a regular on winme general (I expect. For all I know people were asking about it three months ago!) and I never did learnt the solution, never having suffered it myself. Just realised I don't have my sig in OE! Joan Archer wrote: You wont get them if you're reading the posts in Plain Text silly gand I'm going to finish my last drop of proper coffee from the filter machine g "Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in message ... No, still no emoticon. And my tea's cold! Should have stuck to coffee. Perhaps that's why I don't see an emoticon? How much that the 25th is totally devoid of snow, is damp and grey and not even very cold? (That was my signature!) "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... With a name like Tarquin what do you expect g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in message ... Mart wrote: ... so why not? .... Course it would probably take a *long* time, Answered your own question, Tarqui old fruit. Only a loony would actually want to change all filenames. The point was that you can even do that. Or - you can view all files but just select those all in uppercase. In fact you can do just about anything you feel like with the proviso that renaming system files rather than simply changing case is a bad idea. Plus, some are likely to change (revert) over time. See carol's comment :- .. Unfortunately the renaming didn't stick, carol There is always a reason for that. And it will be relatively easy to fix. But if one wishes to put it down to, say, God's will, fair enough... AB |
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Tools | Options | Security and UNcheck "Block images and other external
content in HTML e-mail". -- Mike Tarquin T. Shuttlecock wrote: But I wasn't at first Joan! And I just switched back (mind, I am in OE again, but that shouldn't matter, it's worked for years) and I'm still getting what I got earlier, that is the good ol' blank square with the red x! I'll have to read up on that one I guess. Been a long time since that was a regular on winme general (I expect. For all I know people were asking about it three months ago!) and I never did learnt the solution, never having suffered it myself. Just realised I don't have my sig in OE! |
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Mike M wrote:
Tools | Options | Security and UNcheck "Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail". Bloody 'ell! Thanks! What I find really hard to believe is that I've had that one unchecked (therefore) for, what, the last I don't know how many years? And reading in plain text only also unchecked? I can scarcely remember a time when I didn't use OE-Quotefix with OE. I'm flabbergasted. My flabber has never been so gasted, as I believe Frankie Howerd would have said! So, y'okay Mike? Shane -- Just realised I don't have my sig in OE! |
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Using OE Quotefix should be mandatory for those using OE, especially those
who use it as a newsreader and post messages to Usenet. :-) How are you keeping? Myself, so so thanks. I'm becoming increasingly lazy although I suspect I had a head start on most. even bigger grin Hopefully I'll see you around for the next few days. This place needs livening up before MS try to kill it for good. I now off to try and finish digitising the VHS tape I'm working on. Video keeps going out of synch, I don't know whether it's the age of the tape or the VCR, and I have to keep stopping, resyncing the video and then restarting. Looks as if I'm going to have a lot of editing to do to stitch the parts together. -- Mike Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke wrote: Mike M wrote: Tools | Options | Security and UNcheck "Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail". Bloody 'ell! Thanks! What I find really hard to believe is that I've had that one unchecked (therefore) for, what, the last I don't know how many years? And reading in plain text only also unchecked? I can scarcely remember a time when I didn't use OE-Quotefix with OE. I'm flabbergasted. My flabber has never been so gasted, as I believe Frankie Howerd would have said! So, y'okay Mike? Shane |
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