There are a lot of smart computer people out there; so hear my plea: Can you tell me how to force the default windows xp file extension to be lowercase? Here’s the deal, when I go to save a file, the default windows extension is uppercase; but I want it to be lowercase. Is there a way that I can configure XP to do that? Many thanks in advance to the genius that shows me the light on this one… Seriously, I am pulling out my hair here!
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I did some Googling and used my brain, but couldn’t find anything. Windows XP is case insensitive for files and extensions so it shouldn’t be a problem, except for how it looks. That would bother me, though. Some OSes are case sensitive, however.
Do you have some kind of weird third party application installed that might be causing this?
I’m interested to see if anyone finds a solution.
I don’t even know what the deal is, Bobafred; my computer at work uses .jpg, and my home PC uses .JPG. The problem comes when I do my webpublishing, it is case SeNsItIvE! DAMMIT! So, I have to go and choose .jpg on every file (and by choose, I mean, type it in myself). I was just hoping that it is some easy as hell setting to change in WinXP, where you just say, I want lowercase extensions to be the default, not uppercase. But, as with everything else, there is nothing simple in windows. DAMMIT!
I’m also interested to see if anyone finds a solution. Thanks for your brain power!
Is it just with .jpg files? If so, it might be a setting with whatever image manipulation software you are using. Also, does it happen when you upload to your site? Maybe its a setting in an FTP program. Just some ideas.
Your site probably runs on a Unix-flavored server and that’s why its a problem. Windows considers image.jpg and image.JPG or even ImAgE.jPG to all be the same file, Unix recognizes them as different.
Sorry I’m no help.
I’m not exactly sure how to force Windows to default to lowercase but if you’re having to rename a lot of files at one time, you could run a simply batch program in the folder to fix it…
In the folder with the .JPG files, right click and choose New Text Document. When the file is created, let it keep the default name, “New Text Document.txt”. Double click the text file to open it up and type ren *.JPG *.jpg, save, exit. Change the name of the file to a.bat or something and double click it… voila (sp?).
This, of course, assumes you have instructed Windows to NOT hide common file names.
Hope this helps…
Duane, it totally depends on what program you’re using to save the JPG files with; it’s up to the programmer who set up the “Save As” dialog box. If your hacking skills are in order, you can go into the program and change it to lowercase, but that’s about your only recourse.
Unfortunately, your web host is unix-based, so I can see the pain this probably causes.
One thing you can try is when saving the JPG file, write the rest of the filename in caps too (e.g. MYFILE.JPG); then Windows will convert the whole thing into lowercase for you behind the scenes.
Do you think maybe it has to do with the photo editing software you’re using? I used to use a program that defaulted to JPG. When I switched over to photoshop, that uses the lower-case extension.
Just a thought…
I don’t think my big sexy brain will be able to help you here, Duane, aside from saying, “Get a Mac, girlfriend!”
Oww, stop it! You’re making my brain hurt.
Thanks for all of the tips everyone; but I think I may have not been specific enough. My computer is the one that wants it all caps; doesn’t matter what the program. Since I do everything on my PC before I upload it to my server, it doesn’t matter what my server runs on; in fact, the reason I want it all to uniformly be .jpg, is so I don’t have problems with web publishing and crap like that.
I sincerely do appreciate all of the suggestions, I am going to fiddle around with what some of you suggested, and see if I can make a difference. I think that it is a WINXP thing, so there may be nothing I can do, other than name all of the fuckers myself. UGH! LOL
Its not a Win XP thing by default. I’ve never had a problem with extensions or file names being capitalized on any XP machine. Good luck, I hope you can find a solution. Maybe we can discuss at the next APWBWGTTD.
On Mac at the moment so I can’t check but if you go to control panel–>folder options–>File Types (I think) tab. This is where you can assign things like setting programs to open various file types. There may be other options you can try and maybe even edit the files types themselves (like renaming the .JPG to .jpg).
Dunno just a thought.
When I FTP upload, I’m given the option to rename all extensions lowercase. Any chance you have that option? HTH