cannot rename folder to same name but only change case of some or all letters

[loveunit]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I was trying to rename a folder with the name 'folder' for example to 'Folder' -- with a capital letter, but got the following warning:

THE ITEM COULD NOT BE RENAMED
The name "Folder" is already used in this folder. Please use a different name.

I tried with a few other combinations, and it was the same -- not possible to rename to the same name, but changing the case of some of all of the letters.

loveunit@loveunit:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

loveunit@loveunit:~$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.22.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

apart from the i've never had a single issue with Nautilus -- compared to other file managers like windows horrible explorer it is a dream to use. thanks in advance.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 1 10:49:09 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, are you using a fat32 filesystem which is known to have this limitation?

[loveunit (me-loveunit)]

yep - good spot, the files are on my shared parition, which is vfat, do you know of a work around?

[loveunit (me-loveunit)]

yep - good spot, the files are on my shared partition, which is vfat, do you know of a work around?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is bug #228348, one way is to use a filesystem which allow such changes