> This worked in my "test" directory, but once I became root and tried it, it seemed to
Why did you have to become root? It sounds like you need to use the uid and gid options in the fstab entry for your windows partition. > only mess with my "locate" command.... I say this because before running it "locate > *.MP3" would result in a quick list of these files. But after running that command > in a directory with .MP3's, typing "locate *.MP3" slowly scrolls out the list of > .MP3's in that directory. "locate .MP3" works fine, but mmv did alter the behaviour > locate. Also updatedb gave me this when it finished. Interesting experiment. Here's what's happened: locate(1)'s database has the filenames that the kernel's vfat driver reported, which is what you get in a directory listing, what you see in Windows, and, not coincidentally, the exact strings used to identify the file in the filesystem (except that the fs uses 2-byte chararcter codes, but that's not important to us English-speaking Americans :-). I think that explains the behavior you got the first time you ran locate. Because vfat doesn't differentiate case, the mmv command had absolutely *no effect*. The reason `locate *.MP3' behaved differently is that you ran it in the directory of the mp3's, so the shell expanded your fileglob to a listing of the `*.MP3' files in that directory, and locate did a *separate* search for each one (and found them). First of all, always protect locate's args from the shell, e.g.: locate '*.MP3' or: locate \*.MP3 'man bash' for more. To *fix* this, just say this to bash in the directory of your mp3s: for x in *.MP3;do mv -iv "$x" foo;mv -iv foo `echo "$x"|sed -e 's/MP3$/mp3'`;done (It's all one line -- that linebreak was rudely inserted by Netscrape -- I'm and work and must use Windows.) Note the use of the temporary file 'foo'. If you don't see how that command works, I recommend you read up on bash -- it's a nice shell, and those for loops at the command line are a blast! If you really want to get high, start nesting them! :-D
