[kde-linux] Folders with all capital letters not copied

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Nov 2 22:18:48 UTC 2008


On Sunday 02 November 2008 21:24:18 Maximilian B. Rost wrote:
> KDE 3.5.9
> Konqueror
>
> Hello,
>
> trying to copy subdirectories with capital letters as CD1, CD2 fails. The
> subdirectories are copied with small letters cd1, cd2 from harddisk to
> usb-disk and after creating the subdirectories the content is not copied.
>
> The filesystem of the usb-disk is vfat.
>
> Are there any tricks except of giving all subdirectories minor letters
> before copying?
>
I've never seen any problem in copying any directories, but is it possible 
that you don't own the files in question?

You need to be aware that vfat has problems with capitalisation and cannot 
handle permissions at all.

Anne
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