Case sensitive filenames?

[riksweeney]

Hi,

Are the file names case sensitive? I thought that Rockbox used FAT32 filesystem, but when I renamed a bunch of songs to capitalize the names and copied them over to my iRiver, none of the files were replaced.

I was using Linux when I did the copy so that might go some way to explaining why the files weren't replaced. Just curious really.

Thanks

Richard

[Llorean]

Do you see two of the file in the folder now, or how are you judging that they weren't replaced?

[GodEater]

FAT32 isn't really case sensitve. It allows you to use Upper and Lower case interchangeably in the filenames - but you can't have two files called the same things which happen to mix case - the filesystem still sees them as the same filename.

[riksweeney]

Do you see two of the file in the folder now, or how are you judging that they weren't replaced?

I just used the command line to copy the files (got a script which applies ReplayGain and then copies files that are newer or don't exist). I didn't bother checking it until later and then noticed that I had, say,

I'm not OK
I'm Not OK

I deleted the duplicates but was a bit surprised as I didn't think it'd happen. Oh well.

[Llorean]

And this is actual filetree view, and not the database? I notice that you didn't show extensions or anything, and the database can have more than one entry if you "Update" songs, as it's not built to expect songs to actually change once they're on disk and is not wholly reliable in that case.

[pixelma]

Also...

Do you use dircache?

Since I don't use it myself I don't know how it would behave in such a case but maybe answering that will help to at least find out what's going on.

[riksweeney]

Also...

Do you use dircache?

Since I don't use it myself I don't know how it would behave in such a case but maybe answering that will help to at least find out what's going on.

The files were just a few OGGs that I changed the capitalisation of. This was using dircache aswell as just the filetree (I don't use the database). I might try doing the same thing using the command line and by dragging the files onto it and see what happens.

[Yotto]

I just did this in linux:

ls > foo
ls > Foo
ls
(showed both files)
cp foo Foo /media/ipod/
(no errors)
ls /media/ipod/
(only "foo" existed)