Linux case matters

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Oh no.......I changed every file name on my web site to small case and no
spaces. The upload took 5 hours using a modem and worked fine. I can now add
just a minor change and it still takes five hours to upload. The remote web
site status, indicates "changed" on every single file. This is driving me
crazy and I don't have that far to go anyway. The following error message is
what started the whole process. "The destination web ignores case: the
following pairs of names will conflict.....................No files were
copied, name all files in your web uniquely and try again"
Thanks to Crash and Thomas for your previous help.
Jim
 
"Changed" status on all files on the server - that would indcate the new
version has been uploaded (by you). Which is because you changed the name
of all the files. Linux knows the difference between upper case and lower
case; so INDEX.htm is not the same file as index.htm.

"Destination web ignores case..."....?. This doesn't sound like
Linux/Unix....usually they make a fuss over the case of letters (upper or
lower).
 
Hi Andrew
I found out why it took so long to upload my changes and was not related to
FrontPage. It was a thing called Thumbs.db which is a windows issue. I
deleted every file I could find with Thumbs db., which solved my upload
problem. I still can't download from my website because of this case issue.
It seems that my photo files have multiple names in two different case
letters. Does that make sense? Would you mind looking at the source code here
http://wetherillfamily.com/garia_decendents.htm You will see that the
pictures are listed in upper case JPG and lower case jpg. Can I change lower
case in my code to upper case and not mess things up? You can also see that
there is a missing picture. It just deletes pictures at random for some
reason. Thanks for your help.
Jim
 
You need to open you live/remote site in FP and delete one of the duplicate file, then you will need
to correct the path. In order to change the case of a filename under Windows, you must first rename
it to something different, then rename it back to what you want it to be.

Example of steps required:

MyPhoto.jpg >> myphoto1.jpg >> myphoto.jpg

This is why I recommend that you always use lowercase when your site will be hosted under Unix/Linux
OS, so that you can avoid these issues, as well as eliminate any potential issue that you site
visitor might run into if they every have to type a URL on your site.
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Go to www.jimcosoftware.com and download case changer addin. This
will go through your local website and change all filenames and
corresponding links to lower/upper case.
After publishing to remote website, any files containing upper/lower
case characters can be checked for links to them in Hyperlinks view,
and deleted or moved into a folder if there are no links.
IMO all files should be lower case, to cater for human frailty in
typing.
 
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