Comments on: I want .jpg NOT .JPG… HELP!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:39:20 +0000

When I FTP upload, I’m given the option to rename all extensions lowercase. Any chance you have that option? HTH

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:07:37 +0000

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.

By: bobafred

bobafred — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:12:49 +0000

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.

By: duane

duane — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:13:53 +0000

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

By: The Other Andrew

The Other Andrew — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 02:52:03 +0000

Oww, stop it! You’re making my brain hurt.

By: Amber

Amber — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:36:50 +0000

I don’t think my big sexy brain will be able to help you here, Duane, aside from saying, “Get a Mac, girlfriend!”

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:26:42 +0000

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…

By: David

David — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:18:03 +0000

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.

By: dpb

dpb — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:16:32 +0000

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…

By: bobafred

bobafred — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:55:46 +0000

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.