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John G.6's avatar
John G.6
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

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?

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  • UNC M.'s avatar
    UNC M.
    New member | Level 2
    9 years ago

    You all solved my issue. I was downloading two Filemaker Go databases from the Dropbox IOS app and the file names were changed to lower case.  This broke the external links and they no longer recognized each other. I was also unable to do an import onto a server database from the iPad. Deleted the files and downloaded from the web interface. Caps stayed.  Files worked. 

     

    Thanks

  • xadder's avatar
    xadder
    New member | Level 2
    8 years ago

    And now it is 2017 (almost 2018) and I hit a similar issue. A full folder I was working on home with a notebook didn't show up from my office PC which automounts Dropbox as a filesystem!  Using the web interface I see that yesterday's directory was given a lower-case name, but my mounted Dropbox file system just sees the upper-case directry of 2 days ago! Really frustrating!

     

    I am running Xubuntu (17.10) on both notebook and office PC.

  • benfsmith's avatar
    benfsmith
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    Any news on this? Always happens to me on iOS, especially when accessing via Files or MS office

  • xadder's avatar
    xadder
    New member | Level 2
    8 years ago

    No, no news I'm afraid. I just stopped using Dropbox so much, since this problem can crop up so unexpectedly. And I am just using Xubuntu systems, so no danger of MS messing with cases, except at the DB end I suppose.

     

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