I am copying MP3 files from a CD-RW onto a directory on my hard drive. The file names on the CD-RW are written in lower case, but when I copy the files onto the hard drive, they are converted to all uppercase. Why does it do this? Can I make it keep it lower case?

Thanks.

 

strange, I'm curious to know what OS the CDRW was burned on and what you are extracting to. I know the CDRW is in UDF but the OS... just strange. And if you know the file system on each that would be great too. one last thing, you are just using windows explorer (assuming you are using windows) to copy the files, right? not anything like a norton or other file manager?

just try this and see if it works I'd be interseted if it does - one suggestion after reading through some searches...

do you have winzip? if so... go to start, run, 'winzip' then open up the cdrom in windows explorer, select all the files files/directories/etc. and drag them into the winzip application. it will prompt you to create a new winzip file. click on "NEW" (assuming you are in the 'classic mode') and then type in c:cdrom (it will add the .zip extension) - click ok, then add, and then try to extract those files... once zipped, into a directory and see if it works and retains the lowercase filenames.

 

are you running windows 98?

 

the CD-RW was formatted on a windows NT machine and the files were copied onto CD-RW on a windows NT machine

I took the disc home to my PC at home, which is a windows 98 machine and transferred the files there. That's were all the files became upper case names.


the Adaptec CD writer application on the NT machine is newer than the version on the 98 machine...don't know if that matters.