On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which
> unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8
> characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to
> change some of them back to lower case (in batches within given
> directorates) so that she doesn't have to do it manually one by one? I do
> not want to change the access times, only the filename case letters.
that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced
down our throats.
To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' option
under filesystems (in older k3b) or choose 'linux/unix and windows (with
newer k3b).
About the renaming - maybe this might help:
* sys-apps/rename
Latest version available: 1.3
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
Homepage: http://rename.berlios.de/
Description: tool for easily renaming files
License: GPL-2
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